Experimental Psychology : Ambitions and Possibilities / [E-Book]

Chapter 1. Finding the Place of Experimental Psychology: Introduction -- Chapter 2. From Introspection to Experiment: Wundt and Avenarius' Debate on the Definition of Psychology -- Chapter 3. Truth and Mind: How Embodied Concepts Constrain How We Define Truth in Psychological Science -- Chapter 4. Operationalization and Generalization in Experimental Psychology: A Plea for Bold Claims -- Chapter 5. The Role of Social Context in Experimental Studies on Dishonesty -- Chapter 6. What is a task and how do you know if you have one or more? -- Chapter 7. The Problem of Interpretation in Experimental Research -- Chapter 8. Methodology of science: Different kinds of questions require different methods -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: From experimental to experiential psychology; a small step for a discipline, a huge challenge for a science.

This work brings together different perspectives on psychological methods and particularly methods involving experimentation. To encourage a reflective use of research methods, the authors illuminate the historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions of methodology, providing both defenses and criticisms of experimental psychology. The primary audience of the work are students and researchers in psychological and behavioral sciences, who have an interest in methodology.