Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its LanguageIntelligence, motivation, personality, learning, stimulation, behaviour and attitude are just some of the categories that map the terrain of `psychological reality'. These are the concepts which, among others, underpin theoretical and empirical work in modern psychology - and yet these concepts have only recently taken on their contemporary meanings. This fascinating work is a persuasive explanation of how modern psychology found its language. Kurt Danziger develops an account that goes beyond the taken-for-granted quality of psychological discourse to offer a profound and broad-ranging analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which it depends. Danziger explores this process and shows how its conse |
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Inhoudsopgave
The Ancients | 21 |
The Great Transformation | 36 |
The Physiological Background | 51 |
Putting Intelligence on the Map | 66 |
Motivation and Personality | 110 |
Attitudes | 134 |
The Technological Framework | 158 |
The Nature of Psychological Kinds | 181 |
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Pagina 197 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language |
| Auteur | Kurt Danziger |
| Uitgever | SAGE, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0803977638, 9780803977631 |
| Lengte | 214 pagina's |
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