Experimental Psychology and Clinical Research

Contents: Preface. 1. Experimental psychology: an introduction. 2. Qualitative psychological research. 3. Human experimentation. 4. Superiority and inferiority complex. 5. Experimental plans and control. 6. Emotion, motivation and psychology. 7. Abnormality. 8. Rise of experimental psychology. Bibliography. Index.

"Experimental psychology is an approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. Many experimental psychologists have gone further, and have assumed that all methods of investigation other than experimentation are suspect. In particular, experimental psychologists have been inclined to discount the case study and interview methods as they have been used in clinical and developmental psychology. Since it is a methodological rather than a substantive category, experimental psychology embraces a disparate collection of areas of study. This book highlights all important topics of psychology." (jacket)