Adventures Of A Psychologist Reflections On What Made Up The Mind Michael Corballis by Michael Corballis 9780367420536, 9780367420543, 0367420538, 0367420546 instant download after payment.

        In this enlightening biography, award-winning academic psychologist Michael Corballis tells the story of how the field of cognitive psychology evolved & the controversies & anecdotes that occurred along the way. Since the Second World War, psychology has undergone several scientific movements, from behaviourism to cognitive psychology & finally to neuroscience. In this fascinating biography, Corballis recounts his career as a researcher who played a part in these monumental changes in psychology.
        Beginning with his boarding-school education in New Zealand, Corballis goes on to recount his meanders through university education, his behavioural research into mirror-image discriminations in pigeons, the uprising of the “cognitive revolution” amidst 1960s counterculture & his switch to become a cognitive psychologist, his research into brain asymmetry & the evolution of language & its origin of manual gestures, & the development of mental time travel in animals.
        Featuring stories of prominent scientists who were integral in psychology’s biggest discoveries & insight into the heated debates & controversies in psychology during a time of great scientific & sociocultural change, this biography is a must-read for those interested in how psychology became established as a science.