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Author : Julia Russell,Fiona Lintern,Lizzie Gauntlett,Jamie Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781316605691

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Cambridge International AS and A Level Psychology Coursebook by Julia Russell,Fiona Lintern,Lizzie Gauntlett,Jamie Davies Pdf

Skills-focused resources to support the study of Cambridge International AS and A Level Psychology (9990) for first examination in 2018. This vibrant coursebook is tailored to the Cambridge International AS and A Level Psychology (9990) syllabus for first examination in 2018 and is endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations. It contains rigorous, comprehensive coverage at the most appropriate level of depth and detail for the course. The coursebook contains extra focus on the key concepts of research methods and ethics as well as crucial debates such as nature versus nurture. The content encourages the development of necessary skills of analysis, interpretation, application and evaluation and promotes understanding of ethical and moral issues and their implications for psychological research.

Author : Gustav Adolf Lindner,Charles De Garmo
Publisher : Boston : D.C. Heath
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UGA:32108004171198

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Manual of Empirical Psychology as an Inductive Science by Gustav Adolf Lindner,Charles De Garmo Pdf

Author : Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131700317

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Psychology as a Major by Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss Pdf

A guide to the field of psychology for those thinking of studying the subject at undergraduate level. Drawing heavily on the vocational psychology literature, the books presents self-exploration tools and self-assessment exercises to help readers decide if psychology is for them.

Author : Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor
Publisher : Hasanraza Ansari
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to Psychology by Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor Pdf

This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.

Author : Danny Oppenheimer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393351965

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Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction by Danny Oppenheimer Pdf

An award-winning cartoonist teams up with an award-winning psychologist to introduce readers to the complex—and often comedic—world of psychology. Psychology is the study of human behavior. It is a serious and worthy endeavor that has given us scientific knowledge of the ways our minds make sense of the world. Yet, as cartoonist Grady Klein and psychologist Danny Oppenheimer point out, the study of human experience can also be often really funny. This is the field, after all, that brought us drooling dogs, snacking rats, and “Freudian slips.” With detailed observations on perception, stress, emotions, cognition, and more, Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction offers students and curious readers an entertaining guide to the ways our brains help us navigate incredibly complicated environments, yet often fool us in fascinating ways.

Author : Brahm Norwich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134591886

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Education and Psychology in Interaction by Brahm Norwich Pdf

This book takes an in-depth look at how education and psychology relate to each other, and at the current state of this relationship. Through comprehensive analysis of the ideological, historical, social and professional contexts of this interaction, the author develops the theme that, despite basic differences in aims, the fields are interconnected.

Author : Stephen Babu
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788131237915

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Psychology for Nurses by Stephen Babu Pdf

Psychology for Nurses

Author : A J Soyland
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015031798542

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Psychology as Metaphor by A J Soyland Pdf

The view that the study of rhetoric and metaphor is crucial to understanding psychological discourse is explored in this lucidly argued book. The author scrutinizes a wide range of traditional psychological theory including neuropsychology and memory, childhood development, the IQ debate, accounts of emotion and descriptions of the mind to show how rhetorical strategies and the deployment of metaphor are central to the work of creating a convincing theoretical account. The book explores the distinction between philosophy and rhetoric and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of theories of metaphor and language while pointing to future directions for research. Its theoretical breadth is matched by its wide-ranging treatment

Author : Sven Hroar Klempe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351510226

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Kierkegaard and the Rise of Modern Psychology by Sven Hroar Klempe Pdf

This book investigates the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's (18131855) contributions to our understanding of psychology. In Kierkegaard's historical context, psychology was challenged from both scientific and philosophical perspectives. Kierkegaard considered psychology a core discipline central to his understanding of metaphysics as well as theology.The first part examines Kierkegaard and experimental psychology, focusing on Kierkegaard's work explicitly referring to psychology. The second part considers psychology in terms of the German Enlightenment, including Kant's rejection of psychology as a science. The third part discusses how to understand Kierkegaard's psychology today, calling attention to his continuing impact on modern psychology and modern science.Kierkegaard's conception of psychology remains relevant for any discussion of the role of today's psychology. In tracing psychology's evolution after Kant and Kierkegaard, the author finds the discipline has followed two main paths. The dominant path follows Kant's ideals about science, while the other, much narrower trail, has its origin in Kierkegaard.

Author : Corey W. Dyck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191512629

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Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey W. Dyck Pdf

Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. When characterizing the rational psychology that is Kant's target in the Paralogisms of Pure Reason chapter of the Critique commentators typically only refer to an approach to, and an account of, the soul found principally in the thought of Descartes and Leibniz. But Dyck argues that to do so is to overlook the distinctive rational psychology developed by Christian Wolff, which emphasized the empirical foundation of any rational cognition of the soul, and which was widely influential among eighteenth-century German philosophers, including Kant. In this book, Dyck reveals how the received conception of the aim and results of Kant's Paralogisms must be revised in light of a proper understanding of the rational psychology that is the most proximate target of Kant's attack. In particular, he contends that Kant's criticism hinges upon exposing the illusory basis of the rational psychologist's claims inasmuch as he falls prey to the appearance of the soul as being given in inner experience. Moreover, Dyck demonstrates that significant light can be shed on Kant's discussion of the soul's substantiality, simplicity, personality, and existence by considering the Paralogisms in this historical context.

Author : Charles Anderson,L. Travis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780889208995

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Psychology and the Liberal Consensus by Charles Anderson,L. Travis Pdf

This volume presents a carefully reasoned, rigorous critique of mainline academic psychology. From the professional beginnings of their discipline, contend the authors, American psychologists have made two promises: that psychology would be treated as a natural science and that its application to social—mainly educational—reform would be as effective as that of the more physical sciences to technological change. Underlying these promises is the “liberal consensus,” the belief that social problems are to be solved by improvements in educational methods. Put to the test during the affluence of the 1950s and 1960s—the years of the liberal consensus—these promises were never kept, maintain the authors. Their provocative study provides a variety of reasons why the goal was unattained, and is even unattainable. The book will be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, professional educators, and students of social change.

Author : Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppina Marsico,Nandita Chaudhary,Tatsuya Sato,Virginia Dazzani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319210940

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Psychology as the Science of Human Being by Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppina Marsico,Nandita Chaudhary,Tatsuya Sato,Virginia Dazzani Pdf

This book brings together a group of scholars from around the world who view psychology as the science of human ways of being. Being refers to the process of existing - through construction of the human world – here, rather than to an ontological state. This collection includes work that has the goal to establish the newly developed area of cultural psychology as the science of specifically human ways of existence. It comes as a next step after the “behaviorist turn” that has dominated psychology over most of the 20th century, and like its successor in the form of “cognitivism”, kept psychology away from addressing issues of specifically human ways of relating with their worlds. Such linking takes place through intentional human actions: through the creation of complex tools for living, entertainment, and work. Human beings construct tools to make other tools. Human beings invent religious systems, notions of economic rationality and legal systems; they enter into aesthetic enjoyment of various aspects of life in art, music, and literature; they have the capability of inventing national identities that can be summoned to legitimate one’s killing of one’s neighbors or being killed oneself. The contributions to this volume focus on the central goal of demonstrating that psychology as a science needs to start from the phenomena of higher psychological functions and then look at how their lower counterparts are re-organized from above. That kind of investigation is inevitably interdisciplinary - it links psychology with anthropology, philosophy, sociology, history and developmental biology. Various contributions to this volume are based on the work of Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, Henri Bergson and on traditions of Ganzheitspsychologie and Gestalt psychology. Psychology as the Science of Human Being is a valuable resource to psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, biologists and anthropologists alike.​

Author : Jack Kitaeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429554667

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Handbook of Police Psychology by Jack Kitaeff Pdf

The Handbook of Police Psychology features contributions from over 30 leading experts on the core matters of police psychology. The collection surveys everything from the beginnings of police psychology and early influences on the profession; to pre-employment screening, assessment, and evaluation; to clinical interventions. Alongside original chapters first published in 2011, this edition features new content on deadly force encounters, officer resilience training, and police leadership enhancement. Influential figures in the field of police psychology are discussed, including America’s first full-time police psychologist, who served in the Los Angeles Police Department, and the first full-time police officer to earn a doctorate in psychology while still in uniform, who served with the New York Police Department. The Handbook of Police Psychology is an invaluable resource for police legal advisors, policy writers, and police psychologists, as well as for graduates studying police or forensic psychology.

Author : Robert C. Richardson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262261111

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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology by Robert C. Richardson Pdf

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits—including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason—can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as psychology; but what are their evolutionary credentials? Richardson considers three ways adaptive hypotheses can be evaluated, using examples from the biological literature to illustrate what sorts of evidence and methodology would be necessary to establish specific evolutionary and adaptive explanations of human psychological traits. He shows that existing explanations within evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted biological standards. The theories offered by evolutionary psychologists may identify traits that are, or were, beneficial to humans. But gauged by biological standards, there is inadequate evidence: evolutionary psychologists are largely silent on the evolutionary evidence relevant to assessing their claims, including such matters as variation in ancestral populations, heritability, and the advantage offered to our ancestors. As evolutionary claims they are unsubstantiated. Evolutionary psychology, Richardson concludes, may offer a program of research, but it lacks the kind of evidence that is generally expected within evolutionary biology. It is speculation rather than sound science—and we should treat its claims with skepticism.

Author : Brendan Gough
Publisher : Springer
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137510181

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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology by Brendan Gough Pdf

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology. The handbook explains how critical approaches to social processes and phenomena are essential to fully understanding them, and covers the main research topics in basic and applied social psychology, including social cognition, identity and social relations, alongside overviews of the main theories and methodologies that underpin critical approaches. This volume features a range of leading authors working on key social psychological issues, and highlights a commitment to a social psychology which shuns psychologisation, reductionism and neutrality. It provides invaluable insight into many of the most pressing and distressing issues we face in modern society, including the migrant and refugee crises affecting Europe; the devaluing of black lives in the USA; and the poverty, ill-health, and poor mental well-being that has resulted from ever-increasing austerity efforts in the UK. Including sections on critical perspectives, critical methodologies, and critical applications, this volume also focuses on issues within social cognition, self and identity. This one-stop handbook is an indispensable resource for a range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of psychology and sociology, and particularly those with an interest in social identity, power relations, and critical interventions.