The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology
Author: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1986-10-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780306422508
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The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology
Author: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1489922393
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Author: Michael J. Mahoney
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Published: 2004-12-31
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, originally published by Ballinger in 1976, Michael Mahoney documents the idiosyncracies and foibles of the scientific process as a field of endeavor. A new introduction updates his discussion in light of subsequent developments, including such aspects of academia as politics and tenure, publication and power relations, science studies and constructivist inquiry, and what have come to be called the "science wars."
Introduction to Psychology
Author: Jennifer Walinga
Publisher: Hasanraza Ansari
Published:
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.
The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
Author: Gregory J. Feist
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0300133480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the psychology of science, then calls for the establishment of the field as a unique discipline. He offers the most comprehensive perspective yet on how science came to be possible in our species and on the important role of psychological forces in an individual’s development of scientific interest, talent, and creativity. Without a psychological perspective, Feist argues, we cannot fully understand the development of scientific thinking or scientific genius. The author explores the major subdisciplines within psychology as well as allied areas, including biological neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychology, to show how each sheds light on how scientific thinking, interest, and talent arise. He assesses which elements of scientific thinking have their origin in evolved mental mechanisms and considers how humans may have developed the highly sophisticated scientific fields we know today. In his fascinating and authoritative book, Feist deals thoughtfully with the mysteries of the human mind and convincingly argues that the creation of the psychology of science as a distinct discipline is essential to deeper understanding of human thought processes.
Principles of Physiological Psychology
Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject
Author: Klaus Holzkamp
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-23
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1137296437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book introduces the groundbreaking work of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp. In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, the writings present a concept of psychology based on the individual's relations to the world and open up new perspectives on human subjectivity, agency and the conduct of everyday life.
Critical Psychology
Author: Charles W. Tolman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-04-26
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0521393442
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Freedom and Destiny
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-01-17
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780393318425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. "May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America
A Brief History of Psychology
Author: Michael Wertheimer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1848728743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition approaches psychology as a discipline with antecedents in philosophical speculation and early scientific experimentation. It covers these early developments, 19th-century German experimental psychology and empirical psychology in tradition of William James, the 20th century dubbed "the age of schools" and dominated by psychoanalysis, behavioralism, structuralism, and Gestalt psychology, as well as the return to empirical methods and active models of human agency. Finally it evaluates psychology in the new millennium and developments in terms of women in psychology, industrial psychology and social justice
