Brian Hughes, Dominic Upton

Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

(Undergraduate Revision Guide)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychology Express revise effectively, approach your exams with confidence and make yourself stand out.

Produktdetails

• PSE Psychology Express
• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780273737285
• ISBN-10: 0273737287
• Artikelnr.: 35941808

Autorenporträt

Brian M. Hughes, University of Galway Dominic Upton, University of Worcester

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Guided tour
Guided tour of the companion website
Chapter 1    Explaining People: Theoretical Psychology Throughout the Ages
Chapter 2    Ways of Knowing: The Scientific Method and Its Alternatives
Chapter 3    From Philosophy to Laboratory: The Arrival of Empirical
Psychology
Chapter 4    The Evolution of Measurement: From Physiognomy to
Psychometrics
Chapter 5    The Behaviourist Revolution: Actions as Data
Chapter 6    The Cognitive Revolution: The Metaphor of Computation
Chapter 7    Neuroscience and Genetics: 21st Century Reductionism?
Chapter 8    Can Psychology Be Scientific?
Chapter 9    Subjectivist Approaches to Psychology
Chapter 10  The Problem of Consciousness
Chapter 11  Science Since the 20th Century: Postpositivism and
Postmodernism
Chapter 12  Relativism, Constructivism, and their Implications for
Psychology
Chapter 13  The Future of Psychology
And finally, before the exam
Glossary of terms