Brian D. Cox

The History and Evolution of Psychology (eBook, PDF)

A Philosophical and Biological Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chronological journey through the build-up of psychology from ancient times to the present, and seeks to draw students into the way science is done, rather than merely presenting them with historical fact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315462288
• Artikelnr.: 57141769

Autorenporträt

Brian Cox is Associate Professor at Hofstra University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. The Study of Science and Psychology from a
Historical Perspective Part II: The Paradigm Shifts that Created Psychology
2. The Shift from Church Authority to Rationalism: The Times and Philosophy
of Rene Descartes Chapter 3. Empiricism, its Legacies and Limitations
4. From Argument by Design to Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: The Development
of Evolutionist Thought 5. Idealism to Materialism and Dualism in Germany
Part III: Struggling with the New Paradigm 6. Seeing Things Whole: The
Gestalt Response to Mental Reductionism 7. William James and Functionalism
8. Behaviorism 9. Psychoanalysis 10. The Developmental Approach