February 20, 1983
Professor George Miller, from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the importance of the ...Read more
February 27, 1983
Professor Jerome Bruner, from the New School for Social Research in New York, explains how the study of the 'mind', once a dirty w...Read more
March 6, 1983
Until the present century vision was often regarded as a simple process - the eyes provide the brain with pictures of the outside ...Read more
March 13, 1983
Until recently psychologists shunned questions about the philosophy of 'mind' in the belief that they were tedious and unanswerabl...Read more
March 20, 1983
One of Sigmund Freud's most important contributions to psychology was the notion of an unconscious mind which can guide our behavi...Read more
March 27, 1983
In the 18th century it was assumed that the mind was 'transparent to itself '- that everything occurring in the brain was availabl...Read more
April 3, 1983
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April 16, 1983
For most people the expression of such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy or love forms an important part of human life. It is now ...Read more
April 23, 1983
The most publicised work in understanding human social behaviour in recent years has been the 'naked ape' approach which attempts ...Read more
April 30, 1983
Robert Hinde has spent most of his academic life at Cambridge studying the behaviour of birds and monkeys. More recently he has tu...Read more
May 7, 1983
In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. Clifford Geert...Read more
May 14, 1983
The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is, however, a great deal more to dr...Read more
May 21, 1983
The work of psychologist Sigmund Freud forms the basis of psychoanalysis, but his ideas have also profoundly altered the way we ac...Read more
May 28, 1983
Although psychoanalysis is usually associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, a number of psychologists have found themselves in d...Read more
June 4, 1983
Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding of the causes ...Read more