Themes in Speculative Psychology

by Nehemiah Jordan (Editor)

Overview

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136440762
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	798 KB

About the Author

Edited by Jordan, Nehemiah

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1 Overview; Chapter 2 2 On the nature of simplicity; Chapter 3 3 On looking at the obvious; Chapter 4 *The extent to which I am indebted to Heider rather than to Brunswik for much of what I have to say here about perception is inestimable. But because both Brunswik and Heider acknowledged and acknowledge their mutual debt to each other, I feel less ill at ease at not attempting to disentangle and identify what I got from whom; Chapter 5 5 Some thinking about ‘system’; Chapter 6 6 Why we cannot build ‘thinking machines’; Chapter 7 7 On goals and means; Chapter 8 8 Decision-making under uncertainty and problem-solving; Chapter 9 9 Four types of learning; Chapter 10 10 Training information-processing decision-making man-machine communication-systems; Chapter 11 11 The social science practitioner and his client; Chapter 12 *First published in the June 1963 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology; Chapter 13 *First published in the June 1962 issue of Human Factors; Chapter 14 *First published in the December 1961 issue of Management Technology; Chapter 15 15 Whither scientific psychology?;