Psychology express
Subtitle: conceptual and historical issues in psychology
By: Brian M. Hughes
Publisher: Pearson; Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Harlow, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780273737285
Subjects: Philosophy; Psychology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining people : theoretical psychology throughout the ages; title: Ways of knowing : the scientific method and its alternatives; title: From philosophy to laboratory : the arrival of empirical psychology; title: The evolution of measurement : from physiognomy to psychometrics; title: The behaviourist revolution : actions as data; title: The cognitive revolution : the metaphor of computation; title: Neuroscience and genetics : 21st century reductionism?; title: Can psychology be scientific?; title: Subjectivist approaches to psychology; title: The problem of consciousness; title: Science since the 20th century : postpositivism and postmodernism; title: Relativism, constructivism and their implications for psychology; title: The future of psychology; title: And finally, before the exam; title: .