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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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.

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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