This book provides an introduction to experimental psychology, exploring its beginnings, historical origins, and objectives. It delves into experimentation in psychology, defining the operational concept, and clarifying the methodology, elements, steps, and most important laboratory experiments. The book covers applications of experimentation and variables, explains key concepts, and discusses the effectiveness of variables, statistical experimental research methodology, and the design of psychological research. It also includes non-experimental observation methods and discusses experimentation in simple conditioning, classical procedures, reflexes, and the principles reached by scientists in their theories. The book also addresses definitions and concepts of reaction time, its study stages, and influencing factors, then moves on to psychophysics and the measurement of sensation and perception. Furthermore, it discusses memory and retrieval, its measurement conditions, the transfer of learning, and the physiological variables of emotion and influencing factors. It also presents experiments and theories from various branches of psychology, such as social and child psychology, and experiments on normality and abnormality.

Product Details:

• ISBN: 9789957167882
• Weight: 0.800 kg
• Dimensions: 17x24 cm
• Paper: White
• Pages: 443
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover