A History of Psychology in Ten Questions

The second edition of this student-friendly book uses the history of psychology as a backdrop to provide a commentary on key historical developments and modern dilemmas, whilst encouraging readers to think about questions affecting life today.

Autorentext

Michael Hyland worked as a lecturer and later professor of health psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK, retiring in 2018 after 44 years teaching history and theory in psychology.

Inhalt

Preface

1. How do you know if something is true? The logic of science and the psychology of scientists

2. What compromises should you make if you want to join a group of people? How psychology joined the science club

3. How do social attitudes influence science? Applied psychology, prejudice and intellectual snobbery

4. How do you explain and control behaviour? The rise of behaviourism and its replacement by the cognitive paradigm

5. Why does talking help? From psychoanalysis to the contextual model of psychotherapy

6. What is the relationship between psychology and physiology? Minds and bodies in theory and in practice

7. How do heredity and circumstances determine what people do and experience? The heredity-environment controversy, the person-situation debate and epigenetics

8. How should people's differences and uniqueness be explained? Personality and humanistic psychology

9. What makes a good listener? What is the role of intuition and what questions should you ask? Academic qualitative research, commercial qualitative research, politics and hermeneutics

10. What happens when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? From gestalt psychology to artificial intelligence, social robots and the future of humanity