Richard Gross

Themes, Issues and Debates in Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Themes, Issues and Debates in Psychology offers a thematic approach to the central topics, theories and areas of contemporary psychological research. This book focuses on the issues that comprise a series of fundamental questions that should be asked about any and all areas of research and covers key contemporary debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 5th edition
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9781032413563
• ISBN-10: 1032413565
• Artikelnr.: 67516553

Autorenporträt

Richard Gross holds degrees in Psychology & Philosophy and the Sociology of Education & Mass Communications. Following a career in teaching, the runaway success of his first book, Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, made it possible for him to switch direction and focus on writing.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The person as Psychologist
2 Psychology as science
3 The idiographic and nomothetic approaches to the study of behaviour
4 Traits and situations as causes of behaviour
5 What should the subject-matter of Psychology be?
6 Psychology and ethics
7 Consciousness and the mind-brain relationship
8 Free will and determinism
9 Normality and abnormality
10 Positive Psychology
11 Heredity and environment
12 Sex and gender issues in Psychology
13 Cultural issues in Psychology
14 Parapsychology
15 Psychology, religion and spirituality