1st Edition

Experiments in Personality: Volume 1 Psychogenetics and Psychopharmacology

Edited By Hans J. Eysenck Copyright 1960
280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1960 these two volumes report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been developing from the late 1940s at the Maudsley Hospital. Presenting the studies together in a book, rather than the more usual route of journal articles, was... Read more
Editor’s introduction Part One: Experiments in Psychogenetics P.L. Broadhurst Applications of biometrical genetics to the inheritance of behaviour 1 Introduction 2 Methods 3 Selective reading 4 Analysis of a diallel cross Part Two: Experiments in Psychopharmacology General introduction 5 R.A. Willett The effects of depressant drugs on learning and conditioning 6 H.C. Holland The effects of depressant drugs on some perceptual processes 7 Emer Treadwell The effects of depressant drugs on vigilance and psychomotor performance 8 Irene Martin The effects of depressant drugs on palmar skin resistance and adaption 9 Irene Martin The effects of depressant drugs on reaction times and ‘set’ 10 H.J. Eysenck and S.B.G. Eysenck The classification of drugs according to their behavioural effects Bibliography and Author index Subject index

Biography

H. J. Eysenck