Book Description
An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.
Author : Sacha Bem
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1446281434
An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.
Author : International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Conference
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780792373377
This eighth volume of the proceedings of the biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology continues the Society's exploration of issues in the sciences of the mind. Covered topics include narrative studies, language and discourse, perspectives on cultural psychology, identity and subjectivity, critical history and post-modern debates about constructivism vs. realism. In short, the papers included in this volume present a concise summation of the state of theoretical psychology.
Author : Thomas Teo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1137596511
Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology. The author addresses such topics as what it means to be human in psychology; how psychological knowledge is possible and what it consists of; the role of social justice in psychology; and how aesthetic experience could help us to understand the human condition. Proposing possible solutions to a range of such issues, Thomas Teo situates theoretical questions within traditional branches of philosophical inquiry: ontology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. This book argues that in order to improve psychology as a discipline and in practice, psychologists must reconceive the unit of psychological analysis, looking beyond individual capacity and even experience. By engaging with these basic philosophical problems, Teo demonstrates how psychology can avoid its common pitfalls and continue as a force for resistance and the good.
Author : Andre Kukla
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2001-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262263337
The aim of this book is not to impart a substantive knowledge of core psychological theories, or even to analyze critically selected theories. Instead, it is to prepare the reader to analyze and advance the theoretical literature in any tradition. Theoretical psychology stands in the same relation to psychology as theoretical physics does to physics. The traditional way to study theoretical psychology is to take up one approach after another—behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and so on. The aim of this book is not to impart a substantive knowledge of core psychological theories, or even to analyze critically selected theories. Instead, it is to prepare the reader to analyze and advance the theoretical literature in any tradition. A good theoretician should be able to contribute to the study of psychoanalytic theory as readily as to behavioral theory. The skills required are the same. Instead of covering a sequence of theories, therefore, the book is organized around types of theoretical activities. It is not a work in theoretical psychology; it is a book about theoretical psychology. It also confronts psychologists' underestimation of the variety and the significance of theoretical work. Many theoretical issues do not call for empirical research—they require nothing but thinking.
Author : International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Conference
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781896691176
Author : Matt Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134655177
The book introduces and outlines the six main approaches and considers how each has helped psychologists understand human behaviour, thought and feeling.
Author : Sacha Bem
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Sacha Bem
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761942016
This thoroughly revised edition of the classic textbook explores a wide range of problems in psychology, philosophy, cognitive and brains sciences, identifying the major topics, debates, and controversies and presenting them in a balanced and accessible manner for students.
Author : Susan D. Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1991-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226251523
The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and language acquisition have begun to demonstrate the universality of language acquisition, comprehension, and production processes across a wide variety of modes of communication. As a result, many language practitioners, teachers, and clinicians have begun to examine the role of sign language in the education of the deaf as well as in language intervention for atypical, language-delayed populations. This collection, edited by Patricia Siple and Susan D. Fischer, brings together theoretically important contributions from both basic research and applied settings. The studies include native sign language acquisition; acquisition and processing of sign language through a single mode under widely varying conditions; acquisition and processing of bimodal (speech and sign) input; and the use of sign language with atypical, autistic, and mentally retarded groups. All the chapters in this collection of state-of-the-art research address one or more issues related to universality of language processes, language plasticity, and the relative contributions of biology and input to language acquisition and use.
Author : John R. Morss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1475768176
Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of this volume will demonstrate both the maturity and the vigour of theoretical debate within psychology. There is a level of sophistication here that should be the cause of quiet celebration. Recent ideas about discursive practice and subjectivity, chaos theory and autopoiesis, are effortlessly entrained with classical issues. Canonical texts are looked at with fresh eyes. Unresolved social and political questions are doggedly persisted with, and new perspectives on the human experience are pioneered. We are not afraid of long words, even if French in origin, but nor are we afraid to recognise that we are physical beings who touch other beings, who hold, desire, and remember - and who talk, talk, talk. For surely it is theoretically-sensitive work in psychology - whether "critical" or not - that best represents what the discipline has to offer the wider community.