174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be called the human psyche. His erudite, amusing, and provocative text outlines the crucial influence of the... Read more
Preface. 1. The Problem 2. What the Scientific Method is and Why Psychologists use it 3. The Discoveries of Cognitive Psychology: Models of Memory. Are They of Any Value? 4. Psychometrics: Measuring the Soul or Rendering it to Ashes? 5. Attitudes, Attributions, and Group Processes in the Laboratory and Beyond 6. Cognitive Science: Electrons or Human Beings? 7. Animal Psychology 8. A Way Ahead. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Paul Kline
