Psychology in Historical Context: Theories and Debates
Richard Richard Gross, "Psychology in Historical Context: Theories and Debates"
English | ISBN: 113868385X | 2017 | 364 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 113868385X | 2017 | 364 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Psychology, the study of mind and behaviour, has developed as a unique discipline in its brief history. Whether as it currently takes place, or how it has been conducted over the past 140 years or so since it became recognized as a separate field of study, there has been constant debate on its identity as a science.
Psychology in Historical Context: Theories and Debates examines this debate by tracing the emergence of Psychology from parent disciplines, such as philosophy and physiology, and analyzes key topics such as:
the nature of science, itself a much misunderstood human activity often equated with natural science;
the nature of the scientific method, and the relationship between data gathering and generalization;
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