Introducing Psychology: 2nd edition

by NigelBenson (Author)

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  2004

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  What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? Introducing Psychology answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what it is now.The main schools of thought and the sections within psychology are described, including Introspection, Bio-psychology, Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Comparative (Animal) Psychology, Cognitive Approaches (including the Gestalt movement), Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Humanism. The key figures covered include: Freud, Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, Piaget, Bowlby, Maslow and Rogers, as well as many lesser-known but important psychologists.

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  1999

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  Covering the main schools of psychology, including psychoanalysis, introspection, bio-psychology, behaviourism, the Gestalt movement, and humanism, this text also describes the work of such key names as Freud, Jung, Pavlov, and Skinner.