Laura E. Berk

If I were less tired I'd write a review that used this book as a springboard to air all the problems I have with the whole horrible discipline of psychology and the way it's taught in schools and the arrogance and the lack of care for students and the positivist nonsense and the pretense that operational definitions are real definitions and that statistical significance is actual significance and the laughable fact that they have university students doing multiple-choice questions, but I've just finished a two-hour exam and put an end to a whole awful semester of child development (PSYC 315 at UBC), and I know the prof only makes like five grand to teach that course, so is it really congruent with my political beliefs to take her to task for her endless eighties talk-show clips? I dunno if it's the academy that's broken (and I have existed in an English bubble) or just the social sciences, but here's the review:


There is a wealth of information in this book, and even more padding, and it's not worthless but it's not worth $250.… (meer)