1st Edition

In Defence of Empirical Psychology

By D. E. Broadbent Copyright 1973
234 Pages
by Psychology Press

234 Pages
by Psychology Press

234 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1973, this book contains the 1971 William James Lectures at Harvard, the first by that name to be given by a British psychologist. In addition, there are reprints of four shorter lectures which had not been easily available before. Together the resulting collection gave a broad picture of a number of advances in human psychology in the previous ten years. Memory,... Read more

Foreword.  Part 1: Uncertainty and Action: The William James Lectures 1971  1. Introduction: The Definition of an Action  2. Choice, Probability and Perception  3. The Combination of Evidence  4. The Use of Emotional Words  5. The Recall of Particular Memories  6. Optimal Strategies of Mental Organization  Part 2: Some Particular Issues  Perceptual Defence and the Engineering Psychologist.  The Well Ordered Mind.  Aspects of Human Decision-Making.  In Defence of Empirical Psychology.  Postscript.  References.  Index.

Biography

Broadbent, D. E.