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