| Summary: | "Psychology today differs from the psychology of yesterday. Not that human nature has changed; but we know more about it, thanks to scientific method. The thirty lectures in the first half of this volume are filled with recent findings of psychological research, exemplifying the insight which science makes possible. Written for the radio audience, these chapters are at once vivid and compact. Read in sequence, they give as in a panorama a glimpse across the main fields tilled by contemporary psychology. These include the normal processes of mind; child development; our changing personalities; animal behavior; the psychology of education; and industrial psychology. Students will wish to preface each group of five lectures by turning first to the appropriate manual in the second half of the volume, reading there the introductory chapter and noting the supplementary aids to study. There are also questions to provoke discussion, and annotated references to further readings illustrative of the new understanding which scientific method is bringing to man's knowledge of himself. Here, then, is a fairly representative picture of Psychology Today." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).
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