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Published by Pearson (April 9, 2025) © 2025

Brian Hughes
    Pearson eTextbook (180 Days access)
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    ISBN-13: 9781292747576

    Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues ,2nd edition

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    Discover the ultimate revision guide for psychology students to help you excel in your assessments!

    Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to plan, prepare and practice for all your undergraduate assessments in this subject.

    The guide covers all core concepts you need to know in accordance with QAA and BPS subject guidelines, addressing historical and contemporary perspectives within psychology. It provides a framework for success through features such as topic maps, revision checklists, key terms, summaries of key studies and further reading suggestions.

    To make your revision even more effective you can assess your progress with test questions, compare your answers with answer guidelines and evaluate sample answers to improve your own assessment technique.

    This revision guide is part of the Psychology Express series, covering the complete knowledge base of psychology, designed to complement your lectures, seminars, and additional reading to make sure that you are confident going in to all of your assessments. Preparing for different types of assessments can be challenging, but this guide will give you all of the tools you need to succeed in your assignments. Whether you're facing exams, research papers, presentations, or group projects, you'll find valuable tips and strategies to excel.

    To support your learning journey, a companion website provides additional resources for self-testing and answers to questions in the book.

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    Guided tour

    Chapter 1 Explaining People: Theoretical Psychology Throughout the Ages

    Chapter 2 Ways of Knowing: The Scientific Method and Its Alternatives

    Chapter 3 From Philosophy to Laboratory: The Arrival of Empirical Psychology

    Chapter 4 The Evolution of Measurement: From Physiognomy to Psychometrics

    Chapter 5 The Behaviourist Revolution: Actions as Data

    Chapter 6 The Cognitive Revolution: The Metaphor of Computation

    Chapter 7 Neuroscience and Genetics: 21st Century Reductionism?

    Chapter 8 Can Psychology Be Scientific?

    Chapter 9 Subjectivist Approaches to Psychology

    Chapter 10 The Problem of Consciousness

    Chapter 11 Science Since the 20th Century: Postpositivism and Postmodernism

    Chapter 12 Relativism, Constructivism, and their Implications for Psychology

    Chapter 13 The Future of Psychology

    Glossary of terms

    References

    Index

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