Chapter 2 introduces and explains enduring philosophical problems encountered
throughout the history of psychology: Do humans have free will? What are the methods by …

Purpose Various technology-enhanced learning software and tools exist where technology
becomes the main driver for these developments at the expense of pedagogy. The literature …

Nervous systems are typically described as static networks passively responding to external
stimuli (ie, the 'sensorimotor hypothesis'). However, for more than a century now, evidence …

The present article will detail the evolution of behaviorism and behavior therapy as it
progressed from first-generation behavior therapy applications such as those espoused by …

Many researchers have tackled the question of how behavior is influenced by its outcomes.
Some have adopted a nonmechanistic (functional) perspective that attempts to describe the …

A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications, Sixth Edition, traces
the history of psychology from antiquity through the early 21st century, giving students a …

Psychoanalysis really should not exist today. Until a few years ago, most of the evidence
suggested that its time was drawing to a close, and yet psychoanalysis demonstrated …

In this chapter, we present seven hypotheses about human and animal intelligence that we
explore in the book. Hypothesis 1: Humans and animals embody two different paths to …

Several philosophers have expressed concerns with some recent uses of the term
'cognition'. Underlying a number of these concerns are claims that cognition is only located …

In a thoughtful commentary in this journal a decade ago, Michael Rutter reviewed 25 years
of progress in the field before concluding that developmental psychopathology (DP) initiated …