A History of Psychology in Ten Questions
A History of Psychology in Ten Questions
by Michael Hyland
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0815365071 | 253 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
by Michael Hyland
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0815365071 | 253 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
How did psychology become a science, and what kind of science did it become? How do psychologists measure and explain the fact that in some ways everyone is unique? Is psychoanalysis scientific? Why did cognitive science replace behaviorism? This book addresses all these questions and more, covering the whole range of psychology, from neuroscience and artificial intelligence to hermeneutics and qualitative research in the process. Drawing on the author’s experience of how to make the subject interesting for students, the book is structured around ten key questions that engage with all the core areas of psychology and the main schools of thought. Showing how each of the different approaches or paradigms within psychology differ not based on data but on assumptions, Michael Hyland provides an engaging introduction to debates from history and in contemporary society.