professor daniel n. robinson

Signal-Detection Theory 

Cognitive "Maps," "Insight," and Animal Minds 

Memory Revisited — Mnemonics and Context 

Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding 

Sensation and Perception 

Altruism 

What Is "Personality"? 

B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism 

Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression 

Ancient Foundations — Greek Philosophers and Physicians 

Hearing 

The Emergence of Modern Science — Locke's “newtonian” Theory of Mind 

Comprehanding the World of Experience — Cognition Summarized 

Three Enduring “isms” — Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism 

The Visual Process 

The Development of Moral Reasoning 

Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"? 

Obedience and Conformity 

Psychological and Biological Determinism 

Violence and the Brain 

Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment 

On Being Sane in Insane Places 

Learning and Memory: Associationism — Aristotle to Ebbinghaus 

Perceptual Constancies and Illusions 

Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution 

Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex 

Watson and American Behaviorism 

Defining the Subject 

Language 

Intelligence 

Freud's Debt to Darwin 

Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development 

Civic Development — Psychology, the Person, and the Polis 

Psychobiology — Nineteenth-Century Foundations 

Perception and Attention 

Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development 

Critiques of Freudian Theory 

Minds Possessed — Witchery and the Search for Explanations 

B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society 

Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve" 

What Makes an Event "Social"? 

Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function 

The "Emotional" Brain — The Limbic System 

Socialization — Darwin and the "Natural History" Method 

The Integration of Experience 

Language and the Brain 

Prejudice and Self-Deception