TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piekkola,Brad
TI  - Conceptual & historical issues in psychology
SN  - 9781473916159
AV  - BF121.A4 P54 2017
U1  - 150 PI.C 2017  23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Los Angeles, London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Psychology
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Companion website available at https://study.sagepub.com/piekkola; Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-350) and index; Preface -- Psychological Inquiry as an Evolving Human Practice -- Historical Conceptual Issues -- Science and Psychology -- Physiology and Phenomenology -- Nature and Nurture -- The Mind-Body Problem -- Philosophy of Science -- Mainstream and its Critics -- Critical Psychology and Feminist Psychology -- Psychological Methods and Practice -- The Cognitive Revolution -- Free Will versus Determinism -- Glossary -- References -- Index
N2  - This book covers key movements that helped to shape psychology - from the early philosophical debate between rationalism and empiricism or realists and antirealists through to the emergence of psychology as a science and the ongoing debates about 'objectivity' and 'truth' and what the science of psychology should be. This book examines major conceptual issues in the history of psychology that continue to be debated and influence public policy and lay understanding. The latter stages of the book explore notions of individuality, hereditarianism, critical psychology, and feminist perspectives. While deeply rooted in human history, it is made clear that psychology, how it is conceived and practiced, has a bearing on our understanding of what it is to be human
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