Psychological Bulletin

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0049889pmid: N/A

Reviews the book "Differential Psychology" by Anne Anastasi. According to the reviewer, the author has written an excellent, well integrated survey of the literature on the topics usually dealt with by books on individual differences. The book is intended for the undergraduate who has neither had training in statistics nor acquired any special knowledge. The reviewer explains how the book is divided into two parts and goes over what is covered in each.

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0052872pmid: N/A

Reviews the book "Educational Psychology" by Thomas R. Garth. According to the reviewer, this textbook offers no new perspective on the field of general or educational psychology. Intended as behavioristic, but with a liberal use of mentalistic concepts, the systematic point of view is a mixture of Watsonian behaviorism and the psychology of Thorndike as represented in his "Educational Psychology" of 1913. The reviewer states that the most serious criticism of the text is that the thought and research of psychologists during the past ten years have been considered only sporadically in arriving at empirical generalizations.

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0052443pmid: N/A

Reviews the book, "Historical Notes on Psychiatry: Early Times—End of the 16th Century" by J. R. Whitwell. According to the reviewer, this book somewhat overlaps the contributions by Farrar, by Jelliffe, and others, but also supplements them and is more accurate than Farrar and Jelliffe. The reviewer states that for the historical student in psychiatry and psychology the book contains gems that the references provided show.

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0051321pmid: N/A

Reviews the book "Introduction to Clinical Psychology: For Students of Medicine, Psychology and Nursing", by Edward M. Westburgh. According to the reviewer, this book is curiously uneven, where the author has covered to much ground too superficially. The style is choppy and somewhat stilted, and the book does not make easy reading.

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0053240pmid: N/A

Reviews the book "Modern Psychology in Practice", by W. Lindesay Neustatter. According to the reviewer this is an excellent little book. Written primarily for medical students, it will be enjoyed by the psychologist as well. Since it covers the entire field of medical psychology one gets the impression at times that one is rushing along at breath-taking speed. The reviewer provides a brief summary of what is incorporated in the book.

McGoech, John A.

doi: 10.1037/h0051485pmid: N/A

Reviews the book "Comparative Psychology: Vertebrates" by Carl J. Warden et al. According to the reviewer, this monumental book is the second of a three-volume work on comparative psychology to be published by the above authors. The reviewer explains the titles of the chapters, and briefly states what is discussed in them. The reviewer states that handbooks of this kind are likely to be rather dull, however, this expected shortcoming appears to be minimal in the present volume.