Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Berkeley Book List - Psychology and Cognitive Science

http://books.berkeley.edu/2003/psychology.shtml

John F. Kihlstrom, professor, Psychology

The Story of Psychology, Morton Hunt, Doubleday, 1993

The Mind's New Science, A History of the Cognitive Revolution, H. Gardner, Basic Books, 1985

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language,Steven Pinker, Morrow, 1994

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Judith Rich Harris, Touchstone, 1999

House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth, Robyn M. Dawes, Free Press, 1994

The Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. by Richard J. Gregory, Oxford University Press, 1987

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The language instinct by Pinker is good reading however Constructing a language by Tomasello more accurately describes how language works.

Anonymous said...

Also, concerning infantile amnesia a excellent piece of work is Childhood amnesia by Hayne and Jacks released Oct. 2010, available online