Methodological Thinking in Psychology

Methodological Thinking in Psychology
Author :
Publisher : IAP
Total Pages : 359
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781607524328
ISBN-13 : 1607524325
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Methodological Thinking in Psychology by : Jaan Valsiner

Download or read book Methodological Thinking in Psychology written by Jaan Valsiner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed. The discipline is operating under the tension between the traditional quantitative and the new qualitative methodologies. New approaches emerge in different fields of psychology and education—each of them trying to go beyond limitations of the mainstream. These new approaches, however, tend to be “historically blind” – seemingly novel ideas have actually been common in some period in the history of psychology. Knowledge of historical trends in that context becomes crucial because analysis of historical changes in psychology is informative regarding the potential of “new/old and forgotten” approaches in the study of psyche. Some approaches in psychology disappeared due to inherent limitations of them; the others disappeared due to purely non-scientific reasons. And some new approaches were rejected long ago for well-justified scientific reasons. This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology – cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology. Each of the contributors discusses methodological issues that were more thoroughly understood more than half a century ago than they are now. Overall, the contributions support the idea that in important ways 60 years old psychology was far ahead of the most recent trends in mainstream psychology.


Methodological Thinking in Psychology Related Books

Methodological Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Donileen R. Loseke
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-29 - Publisher: SAGE Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focused on the underlying logic behind social research, Methodological Thinking: Basic Principles of Social Research Design by Donileen R. Loseke encourages rea
Methodological Thinking in Psychology
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Jaan Valsiner
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: IAP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed. The discipline is operating under the tensio
Parsing the Turing Test
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Robert Epstein
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-01 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An exhaustive work that represents a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelli
Methodological Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Donileen R. Loseke
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03 - Publisher: SAGE

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The text is organized to help students become good consumers and producers of research by developing skills to design small-scale research projects and evaluat
Doing Q Methodological Research
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Simon Watts
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-19 - Publisher: SAGE

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a research technique designed to capture the subjective or first-person viewpoints of its part