W. H. R. Rivers
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| - | '''Experimental psychology''' is a methodological approach rather than a subject and encompasses varied fields within psychology. Experimental psychologists have traditionally conducted research, published articles, and taught classes on [[neuroscience]], [[developmental psychology]], [[Sense|sensation]], [[perception]], [[attention]], [[consciousness]], [[learning]], [[memory]], [[thinking]], and [[language]]. Recently, however, the experimental approach has extended to [[motivation]], [[emotion]], and [[social psychology]]. | + | '''William Halse Rivers Rivers''' ({{birth date|1864|3|12|df=y}} – {{death date|1922|6|4|df=y}}) was an [[England|English]] [[anthropologist]], [[neurologist]], [[ethnologist]] and [[psychiatrist]], best known for his work treating [[First World War]] officers who were suffering from [[shell shock]]. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]], with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. Rivers was a fellow of [[St John's College, Cambridge]], and is also notable for his participation in the [[Torres Straits]] expedition of 1898 and his consequent [[wikt:seminal|seminal]] work on the subject of [[kinship]]. |
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| - | Experimental psychologists conduct research with the help of [[experiment|experimental methods]]. The concern of experimental psychology is discovering the processes underlying behavior and cognition. | + | |
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| - | * [[Outline of psychology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychological experiment]] | + | |
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"Laboratory psychology of the kind practiced in Germany and the United States was slow in coming to Britain. Although the philosopher James Ward (1843-1925) urged Cambridge University to establish a psychophysics laboratory from the mid-1870s forward, it was not until the 1891 that they put so much as £50 toward some basic apparatus (Bartlett, 1937). A laboratory was established through the assistance of the physiology department in 1897 and a lectureship in psychology was established which first went to W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922). Soon Rivers was joined by C. S. Myers (1873-1946) and William McDougall (1871-1938). This group showed as much interest in anthropology as psychology, going with Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) on the famed Torres Straits expedition of 1898." --Sholem Stein |
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William Halse Rivers Rivers (Template:Birth date – Template:Death date) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. Rivers was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is also notable for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898 and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship.
