Key Thinkers in Psychology
It is important for every student of psychology, wherever they might be in the world, to understand the classic scholars, the classic studies, and the subsequent generations of people and ideas that have come to define the broad discipline that is 'psychology'. This book achieves this in the most accessible and engaging manner possible. Rom Harré presents a unique textbook orientation, combining the biopic with the significance of the major protagonists of the last century, organized by 'schools of thought', yet with cross-references throughout the text.

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Key Thinkers in Psychology
It is important for every student of psychology, wherever they might be in the world, to understand the classic scholars, the classic studies, and the subsequent generations of people and ideas that have come to define the broad discipline that is 'psychology'. This book achieves this in the most accessible and engaging manner possible. Rom Harré presents a unique textbook orientation, combining the biopic with the significance of the major protagonists of the last century, organized by 'schools of thought', yet with cross-references throughout the text.

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Key Thinkers in Psychology

Key Thinkers in Psychology

by Rom Harre
Key Thinkers in Psychology

Key Thinkers in Psychology

by Rom Harre

Overview

It is important for every student of psychology, wherever they might be in the world, to understand the classic scholars, the classic studies, and the subsequent generations of people and ideas that have come to define the broad discipline that is 'psychology'. This book achieves this in the most accessible and engaging manner possible. Rom Harré presents a unique textbook orientation, combining the biopic with the significance of the major protagonists of the last century, organized by 'schools of thought', yet with cross-references throughout the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412903455
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rom Harré is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FROM BEHAVIOURISM TO COGNITIVISM
The Behaviourists - Ivan Pavlov and Burrhus Frederick Skinner
The Developmentalists - Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg
The Cognitivists - Frederic Bartlett, Jerome Bruner, George Kelly, Noam Chomsky and George Miller
The Computationalists - Alan Turing, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, Marvin Minsky and John Searle
The Biopsychologists - Wilder Penfield, Alexander Luria, Karl Pribram, Konrad Lorenz and Edward. O Wilson
The Psychologists of Perception - Wolfgang Köhler, James Gibson, Richard Gregory, David Marr, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, Lawrence Weiskrantz, Alan Hein and R. Held
PART TWO: FROM INDIVIDUALS TO GROUPS
The Personologists - Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, James Lamiell and Erving Goffman
The Social Psychologists - William Mc Dougall, Fritz Heider, Muzafer Sherif, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, Michael Argyle, Serge Moscovici and Henri Tajfel
PART THREE: FROM THEORY TO REALITY
The Philosophers - John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Daniel Dennett
The Psychopathologists - Emile Kraepelin and Sigmund Freud
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