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Martin, G. Neil / Carlson, Neil R. / Buskist, William: Psychology. Online Course Pack: Psychology with WebCT PIN card (EMA Courses Only). Pearson / Longman, 2004, ISBN: 1405810181
Introducing the second edition of this highly successful introductory psychology text. You will not find a better textbook package: it includes a lively text, a Companion Web Site, as well as a wealth of lecture resources. Psychology is a comprehensive and superbly written text: it engages, it informs, it facilitates debate, and it combines the best of design and pedagogy with sound European rigor. Psychology covers in depth and in a lively and critical fashion all the major aspects of 1st year undergraduate psychology courses. The authors emphasise how the various sub-disciplines in psychology are interrelated. Importantly, the text covers not only new and important research but also the application of that research to real-life problems and situations, giving the book a genuine 'real world' approach to the subject. Psychology contains a wealth of features to help you engage with the material and appreciate the many fascinating areas of enquiry within the field. ISBN 1405810181

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BELZEN, JACOB A. [ED.]. Aspects in Contexts - Studies in the History of Psychology of Religion. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2000.
ISBN: 90-420-1511-x.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, tall 8vo; 300pp., 8 contributions, footnotes, references, notes on authors, index. Contents: 1. Jacob A. Belzen: Psychology is history. On the necessity of the psychology of religion to reflect its own history. By way of introduction to the volume. 2. David M. Wulff: James Henry Leuba. A Reassessment of a Swiss-American Pioneer. 3. Eckart Nase: The Psychology of Religion at the Crossroads. Oskar Pfister's Challenge to Psychology of Religion in the Twenties. 4. Jacob A. Belzen: Tremendum et Fascinans: On the Early Reception and Nondevelopment of the Psychology of Religion among Orthodox Dutch Calvinists. 5. Hendrika Vande Kemp: Gordon Allport's pre-1950 Writings on Religion. The Archival Record. 6. Troels Nörager: Villiam Grönbaek and the Dorpat School. Elements of a " History " based on the Correspondence between Villiam Grönbaek and Werner Gruehn. 7. Patrick Vandermeersch: The Failure of Second Naivete. Some Landmarks in the History of French Psychology of Religion. 8. Ingemar Nilsson: The Identity of the Psychology of Religion. A Swedish Case Study. As new. Volume 9: International Series in the Psychology of Religion.

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Benjamin Bradley: Psychology and Experience, New Delhi, India Cambridge University Press 2005 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0-521-01199-X
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If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century marginalise or deny it? In this thought-provoking new book Benjamin Bradley shows how our everyday experiences need to be at the core of the scientific discipline. He calls for a move away from attempts to reconcile the many contrasting and often opposing theories and philosophies of contemporary psychology, and instead puts forward a scholarly and exciting new vision for psychology which focuses on the 'here-and-now' and the importance of others as equals in teaching and research. He encourages the reader to reconsider the very basis of our understanding of what experience is. This uniquely inspiring and practical text will prove an invaluable resource for all those interested in teaching, learning and researching about the mind. ° A thought provoking study which reclaims the psychology of experience ° Realigns assumptions made about the discipline of psychology ° Professor Bradley is a well respected psychologist who has published widely in the areas of developmental and social psychology Contents Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Learning from experience; 3. From here to synchrony; 4. What to make of coincidence; 5. The topography of intersubjective space; 6. The two axes of psychological explanation; 7. Pictures of psychical change; 8. Research among equals; 9. Validating the curriculum; 10. Conclusion. Printed Pages: 256. First Paperback Edition Paperback 150 x 230 Mm; First Paperback Edition

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Taine, Hippolyte Adolph (1828-1893): De l'intelligence, Paris 1870

Par H. Taine. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1870. 2 vols. 1st Edition. [4]+492, [4]+508pp. Contemporary pebbled green-blue cloth with gilt-stamped burgundy morocco spine labels, edges of text block sprinkled red. Modest bubbling, rubbing & bumping to the cloth; crowns frayed; light foxing; some wear to the spine labels; a VG set in an early binding. With the interesting art deco bookplate to both volumes of a "Dixon Boyd" (possibly James Dixon Boyd, 1907-1968, who became professor of anatomy at Cambridge University in 1951). The foundation text for scientific psychology in France. The first volume contains Taine's psychology proper, while the second volume is primarily epistemological in orientation. "Of particular importance for future directions taken by French scientific psychology were Taine's positivism, reductive sensationalism [derived from Condillac], theory of hallucination, analysis of memory, and recognition of the existence of unconscious mentality" [Wozniak, p. 31]. For Taine it was sensations that correspond to external reality, with mental images representing sensations, while general ideas were reduced to names that signified the images standing for sensations. Taine explained hallucinations as images that lacked a normally present second state that extinguished the images' external location. In his discussion of memory Taine emphasized the central role played by the degree of attention to the original event. By emphasizing the importance of unconscious mental processes and by relying greatly on data drawn from psychopathology and exceptional mental states, Taine "initiated the French tradition that the normal mind is to be understood by a study of the abnormal" [Boring]. Wozniak Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914: Historical Essays, pp. 30-34 [from which my account is largely taken]; Boring A History of Experimental Psychology [1929 edition], pp. 606 & 666; Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology p. 419. Weight: 4 pounds 0.9 ounces = 1.9 kg. Size: 8.6 x 5.8 x 3.2 inches = 21.5 x 14.5 x 8cm. Perhaps the greatest 19th century positivist contribution to psychology, Taine's book laid out a program for keeping psychological generalizations tied to experimental facts (his positivism). Binet dated the birth of experimental psychology in France to the publication of De l'intelligence in 1870. Taine greatly influenced Ribot, Janet and Binet. He "brought the study of psychopathology within the ambit of the new science as it emerged in France; and, in so doing, he helped impart to French psychology its distinctive character" [Wozniak, p. 34]. HB

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