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psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions... Read more |
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Counseling Psychology
Counseling PsychologyBIBLIOGRAPHYCounseling psychology, a specialty within the area broadly designated as applied psychology, is not primarily an entitative science but draws heavily upon the basic and applied fields of psychology and upon other behavioral sciences for its foundations (Berdie 1959).... Read more |
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Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary Psychology BIBLIOGRAPHY Evolutionary psychology proposes a set of evolved psychological mechanisms to account for much, if not all, human behavior. The research program is one among many in the social sciences that argues for the relevance of evolutionary biology in understanding... Read more |
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Developmental psychology
Developmental PsychologyI. The FieldHarold W. StevensonBIBLIOGRAPHYII. A Theory of DevelopmentJean PiagetBIBLIOGRAPHYI THE FIELDDevelopmental psychology is concerned with the study of changes in behavior throughout the life span. Although, logically, equal emphasis should be placed on development... Read more |
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Engineering Psychology
Engineering PsychologyHistorical developmentMethodologySubject matterMan-machine system designBIBLIOGRAPHYEngineering psychology is a branch of applied psychology specifically concerned with the discovery and application of information about human behavior and its relation to machines, tools, and... Read more |
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Educational psychology
Educational PsychologyPresent status and concernsBIBLIOGRAPHYA definitive history of educational psychology is still wanting. Existing histories of areas of psychology are generally addressed to other purposes, with the development of educational psychology treated incidentally (for example, Boring... Read more |
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Psychology and religion
Psychology of Religion From the perspective of science and religion, there exist three kinds of psychology of religion. "Secular" empirical psychology (e.g., Hood) – the most widely practiced – excludes the question of the transcendent and researches religious experiences and... Read more |
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Psychological tests
Psychological tests Definition Psychological tests are written, visual, or verbal evaluations administered to assess the cognitive and emotional functioning of children and adults. Purpose Psychological tests are used to assess a variety of mental abilities and attributes,... Read more |
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Clinical psychology
Clinical PsychologyBIBLIOGRAPHYClinical psychology, a branch of psychology, is that body of knowledge and skills which can be used to help persons with behavior disabilities or mental disorders to achieve better adjustment and self-expression. It encompasses the applied areas of diagnosis,... Read more |
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Jungian psychology
Analytical PsychologyStructure of personalityReligionJung’s method of treatmentEvaluationBIBLIOGRAPHYAnalytical psychology, also called complex psychology, is identified with the work of Carl Gustav Jung, who founded it. It is an attempt to expand Freudian psychology, from which it developed. Jung’s... Read more |
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Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. (book...
...write exultantly of the expulsion of 'psychologism' and the subsequent independence of...things going on under the names of 'psychologism' and 'antipsychologism'. The term 'psychologism' was not a neutral description but... |
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The pitfalls of psychologism.
THE PITFALLS OF PSYCHOLOGISM I was pleased to see Robert Heilbroner's review of Eli Sagan...a different character entirely. In the currently influential psychologism of which Sagan's work is an example, this inflation involves... |
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Hanna, Robert. Rationality and Logic.(Book review)
...discredit its principal rivals: logical psychologism and logical platonism (chapter 1...On Hanna's conception of logical psychologism, either logical facts/ properties...12, emphasis omitted), logical psychologism is a species of scientific naturalism... |
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Dancy, Jonathan. Practical Reality.
...which Dancy labels as instances of "psychologism" (p. 15)--fail to explain how...act for good reasons. According to psychologism, what agents are motivated by are...grounded in psychologicai states; and so psychologism rules out the possibility of agents... |
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PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY Vol. 49, No. 196, July 1999.(Bibliography)
...Investigations, build on the attack on psychologism initiated by Frege. Frege's rejection of psychologism led him to the view that the meanings...not sufficiently distinguish anti-psychologism and anti-mentalism. In the light... |
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Mohanty's logic of phenomenology
...progression, with sharp splits or conversions, from psychologism to anti-psychologism, from realist phenomenology to transcendental...the conceptualizations under the titles "psychologism," "essentialism," "transcend |
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Precedents in Aristotle and Brentano for Husserl's concern with...
...1900-01), where the attack on psychologism exploits the fact that psychological...is determined by the need to avoid psychologism's metabasis. In fact, Husserl believed...idealism to be the lone alternative to psychologism. (2) Later, as he broaches transcendental... |
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Hermeneutics and the Heidegger = Schumpeter theses.(II. Arguing Economics: In...
...Austrian subjectivism originated in Franz Brentano's psychologism and broadly influenced the fields of economics, philosophy...Husserl, the pupil of Brentano, criticized his teacher's psychologism and developed phenomenology, as an approach to philosophy... |
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Derrida, Jacques. The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy.(Book Review)
...philosophy with an assault on prevalent contemporary theories of knowledge, called "psychologism." Husserl has "three motives" for his critique of psychologism. Firstly, Husserl seeks to demonstrate that rules of logic are genuine laws and... |
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Husserl and the Question of Relativism.
...equivocations implicit in the arguments made by advocates of psychologism and historicism, the two most powerful forms of relativism...the latter position the argument made by some proponents of psychologism that the truth or falsity of logical laws may be determined... |
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