Psychology : the hope of a science

Author(s)

• Kimble, Gregory A.

Bibliographic Information

Psychology : the hope of a science

Gregory A. Kimble

（Bradford book）

MIT Press, c1996

1st ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

At a time in the history of psychology when many psychologists are troubled by the splintered condition of the field, Gregory Kimble proposes that the diverse perspectives in psychology share ways of thinking that can bring coherence to the discipline. Drawing on years of extensive research and scholarship (including a deep familiarity with the writings of William James and many psychologists who have succeeded him in a search for unity in psychological theorizing), Kimble presents evidence for this potential unity. He portrays psychology as a natural science with relevance to human life and offers a set of axioms that hold the field together. Psychology is a two-part exploration of the concept of psychology as the science of behavior. The first part describes the traditional commitments of the scientific method and spells out the implications of those commitments for psychology. The second part develops a general theory within a framework that can be called functional behaviorism, which combines the imperative that a science of psychology must be about observable realities with the view that human behavior is the result of evolution. Kimble's proposals are of general significance and have stood the test of time: they were reasonably explicit in the writings of the giants in the history of psychology, and they apply in contexts that range from behavioral neurology to social action. A Bradford Book

Table of Contents

• Psychology as a natural science
• subjective concepts in a world of facts
• the structure of the science
• two forms of adjustment
• opponent-process theory
• thresholds for responding
• organized and disorganized behaviour
• epilogue - to give psychology away.

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Details

• NCID: BA26735480
• ISBN:
  • 0262112043
• LCCN: 95021458
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 153 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF121
  • DC20 : 150/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Psychology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00245453