实验心理学

这本书最耐人寻味的地方，在于它把读者当成'即将亲手设计实验的人'，而非'下一秒就能独立操作仪器的专家'。它不满足于罗列知觉、记忆、思维等研究领域，而是反复追问：如何从纷繁现象中提出真问题、如何用变量把模糊的'感觉'变成可测量的东西、如何在操纵自变量时把额外干扰悄悄挡在门外。书中'狐狸与刺猬'的比喻尤其耐读——它提醒读者，心理学理论本就允许多元取向并存，而非唯一标准答案。正因如此，它被不少读过五六本同类教材的人公认'最优秀'。唯一遗憾是译文生硬，常需边读边在脑中还原英文句式。适合准备考研、想要系统建立实验思维，且愿意啃文字的初学者。

Barry H. Kantowitz is Professor of Psychology, Professor of Industrial and Operational Engineering, and Director of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist of the Human Factors Transportation Center of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. He has written and edited more than a dozen books. His research on human attention, mental workload, reaction time, human-machine interaction and human factors have all been supported by the Office of Education, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NHTSA, and FHWA. Henry L. Roediger, III, is the James S. McDonnell University Professor of Psychology and Dean of Academic Planning in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1996. He received a B.A. in psychology from Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University. He has taught at Rice University, Purdue University, and spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in cognitive psychology, particularly in human learning and memory. Dr. Roediger has published more than 170 chapters, articles, and reviews as well as other textbooks and edited volumes. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005). David Elmes is Professor of Psychology at Washington and Lee University. He earned his B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and completed the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there. He is a past president of the Council on Undergraduate research and is a fellow of the American Psychological Society. Professor Elmes has edited READINGS IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY and DIRECTORY OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY AT PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005).