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The Nature of Psychology; (Record no. 36131)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780521134804
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	152 K393 N
Item number	102743
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Kenneth James Williams Craik
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The Nature of Psychology;
Remainder of title	a selection of papers, essays, and other writings.
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Edited by Stephen L. Sherwood.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication	Cambridge [Eng.]
Name of publisher	University Press,
Date of publication	1966.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	xx, 184 p.
Accompanying material	24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	In his brilliant and tragically brief career, Kenneth Craik anticipated certain ideas in biology and psychology which have since his death found wide acceptance. Craik was one of the first to realise that the machines of his and our day share some of the principles of functioning with brains. Kenneth Craik was killed in an accident in 1945 and left a large number of unpublished papers, a selection of which have here been sorted and edited by Dr Stephen L. Sherwood. The selection includes the draft for a book on the 'Mechanism of Human Action' with important ideas on learning, thinking, decision-making and on models of brain mechanism. There is also fascinating material on the measurement of perception, sensory physiology and the relationship of nervous function to machines. There are some philosophical discussions and a few introspective comments.<br/>
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	1. Introductory<br/>2. Principles of automatic regulation and servo-mechanisms<br/>3. Review of synthetic principles and their application to living systems<br/>4. Brain mechanisms: levels<br/>5. Cyclical action in men and machinery<br/>6. On human behaviour<br/>Part III. Experimental Work:<br/>7. Anderson Stuart's Contrast phenomenon<br/>8. Brightness, discrimination, borders, and subjective brightness<br/>9. On the effects of looking at the sun<br/>10. Localized aniseikonia following 'eclipse blindness'<br/>11. Correspondence regarding amblyopia<br/>12. The photochemical stimulation of the optic nerve<br/>13. Theories on dark-adaptation<br/>14. Introspections on learning the Link Trainer by a mixed visual and instrument method<br/>Part IV. Sensory Quantification:<br/>15. Crawford's results in binocular summation (unpublished)<br/>16. Measurability of sensation<br/>17. In defence of the measurability of sensation-intensity<br/>18. Quantitative estimates of sensory events<br/>19. On the question of sensation scales<br/>Part V. Aspects of Psychology:<br/>20. Lectures on psychology for medical students<br/>21. The nature of animal behaviour<br/>22. Laws of association<br/>23. Psychological effects of the black-out<br/>Part VI. Philosophy:<br/>24. The nature of explanation - reply to critics<br/>25. Causes and purposes<br/>26. Man's extension of himself<br/>27. On the working of the mind<br/>28. On the inductive study of language and the meaning of particular words<br/>29. Induction, coherence, relational systems, and the objective validity of thought, 30. Life<br/>31. Claustrophobia<br/>32. 'The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences'<br/>33. Disagreement<br/>34. War as a part of life<br/>35. Songs of creation<br/>Bibliography of the writings of K. J. W. Craik<br/>References.<br/>
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Psychology.
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Koha item type	Books

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