Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (April 9, 2025) © 2025

  • Brian M. Hughes University of Galway

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Get ready to conquer your assessments with Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, 2nd edition!

This concise guide is designed to help you understand key concepts efficiently and organize your revision. With topic maps, revision checklists, summaries of key studies, and further reading suggestions, you'll have all the tools you need for successful revision.

Plus, test questions, answer guidelines and sample answers will help you gauge your progress, give you an opportunity to practice for exams and help to make your answers stand out in assignments.

This edition includes a Companion Website.

Table of contents

  • 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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