I Compute, You Compute, We All Compute

Reviews the book, The Computer in Psychology edited by Michael J. Apter and George Westby (1973). There are two parts to the book. Part 1 introduces computers and programming as fundamental tools for three major aspects of the study of behavior, namely, data processing, running experiments, and modeling of behavior. Part 2 surveys applications of computing in separate chapters on perception, language, comparative psychology, clinical psychology, and education and training. This book gives almost no details on the operation of transducers, for example, or the problems of sampling error and noise that arise especially with high-speed transduction into light or sound. There is a useful role as a general introduction to computing over the broad fields of psychology, and it is suitable for undergraduates or graduates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)