Curt Richter A Life in the Laboratory

• Main Author: Schulkin, Jay (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phi...