Paul van Geert

Toward a Process Approach in Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

Stepping into Heraclitus' River

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to recognize that dynamics, context-specificity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty, are a natural and exciting part of human psychology - these are not things to be avoided and feared, but instead embraced. This requires a shift toward a process-based approach that recognizes the situated, time-dependent, and fundamentally processual nature of psychological phenomena. With complex dynamic systems as a framework, this book sketches out how we might move toward a process-based praxis that is more suitable and effective for understanding human functioning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108853880
• Artikelnr.: 66181669

Autorenporträt

Paul van Geert is Emeritus Professor of developmental psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is considered a pioneer in the application of the (complex) dynamic systems approach to a broad range of developmental areas, including cognitive and early language development, second language acquisition, learning-teaching processes, and educational processes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Change, the final frontier
2. A (selected) foundation for a process approach
3. The goal of Socrates
4. Esteeming entities
5. A person acting amongst persons
6. Cliffhangers and utilitarian infants
7. Causes, kings and interventions
8. (Compl)explanation and King Alfonso's lament
9. What's in a name?
10. (Un)certainties
11. Troubled waters of Hercalitus' river?
12. Psychological science as a complex dynamic system.