professor daniel n. robinson

Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development 

Perceptual Constancies and Illusions 

Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution 

The Development of Moral Reasoning 

On Being Sane in Insane Places 

Signal-Detection Theory 

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

Comprehanding the World of Experience — Cognition Summarized 

Language and the Brain 

Learning and Memory: Associationism — Aristotle to Ebbinghaus 

Perception and Attention 

Freud's Debt to Darwin 

Obedience and Conformity 

Three Enduring “isms” — Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism 

Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment 

The Integration of Experience 

What Is "Personality"? 

Psychobiology — Nineteenth-Century Foundations 

Hearing 

Civic Development — Psychology, the Person, and the Polis 

The Visual Process 

Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"? 

Socialization — Darwin and the "Natural History" Method 

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

B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism 

Prejudice and Self-Deception 

Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function 

Defining the Subject 

Memory Revisited — Mnemonics and Context 

Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding 

Ancient Foundations — Greek Philosophers and Physicians 

Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression 

Language 

Intelligence 

Psychological and Biological Determinism 

B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society 

Sensation and Perception 

The "Emotional" Brain — The Limbic System 

Altruism 

What Makes an Event "Social"? 

Minds Possessed — Witchery and the Search for Explanations 

Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development 

Violence and the Brain 

Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex 

Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve" 

Critiques of Freudian Theory 

Watson and American Behaviorism