Published July 2011
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
Author: Brian M. Hughes
Publisher: Prentice Hall, London
(Part of the Psychology Express Series, edited by Dominic Upton)
ISBN-10: 0273737287
ISBN-13: 978-0273737285
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Contents
| 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 |
13 chapters?? That’s just asking for it.