The Story of Psychology
by Morton Hunt
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Author: Morton HuntEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-18
ISBN: 0307278077
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: A new psychology "handbook"
Summary: 4 Stars
(This paperback was revised and updated in 2007)
I had the pleasure of taking a progressive Introduction to Psychology course from one of the nation's top psychology instructors and researchers, Dr. David Hothersall. Morton Hunt's The Story of Psychology could have made a good addition to the course readings. This text examines the psychological pioneers' lives and work in enlivening details that form them into real people. This is true even back thousands of years into Ancient Egypt and language experiments. Hunt points out the usefulness of psychology today in greater numbers of aspects than the understanding of human nature and motivation, which many people may feel to be the principal intent of psychology.
Hunt demonstrates this usefulness in properly administered and interpreted workplace testing. Proper testing lead to one's Dream Job, as it were - the best position to fulfill one's skills and the company's needs as well as one's desires. Psychology can also be used to aide the exploration of the universe, such as in helping to achieve long periods of far-off living on the International Space Station and aboard the future 4-month long voyages to and from Mars, not to mention to Luna, our oxygen-restricted Moon.
As Hunt warns about ill-used testing, Dr. Hothersall taught how white Anglo-Saxon language-based IQ tests placed minorities at a disadvantage. Out of a 350-member class taking an urban language-based test, I scored third highest - at 35 (well over a hundred points lower than previous testing). This proves Hunt's cautions as legitimate to me.
Overall, the Hunt revised volume is decidedly Western in worldview and contains the unvarnished opions of the author about advertising, George W. Bush, and what is germane to the development of psychology into the future. In addition, the author offers to uphold notions that minorities score lower that whites and females lower than males in IQ testing, because of undeniable and unchangeable genetics. However, this is strong challenge to find out for oneself.
Armchair Interviews says: The Story of Psychology would be a good read for psychology students and practitioners and anyone interested in the ways of psychology through the centuries, past and future.
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