Psychology for the third millennium : integrating cultural and neuroscience perspectives
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Psychology for the third millennium : integrating cultural and neuroscience perspectives
Sage, 2012
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Bibliography: p. [288]-305
Includes indexes
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Description
As the 21st Century opened, the discipline of psychology seemed to be separating into two radically distinct domains. Qualitative and Cultural Psychology focused on the discursive means for the management of meaning in a world of norms, while Neuropsychology and Neuroscience focused on the investigation of brain processes. These two domains can be reconciled in a hybrid science that brings them together into a synthesis more powerful than anything psychologists have achieved before. For the first time, there is the possibility of a general psychology in which the biological and the cultural aspects of human life coalesce into a unitas multiplex, unity in diversity.
This textbook ambitiously aims to and succeeds in providing this unity. Fathali M. Moghaddam and Rom Harre have designed a textbook brought together with additional voices that speak to the similarities and differences of these two seemingly distinctive domains. This bridge-building will encourage a new generation of undergraduate students studying psychology to more fully appreciate the real potential for the study of human behaviour, and as such it will represent a more provocative alternative to standard general psychology textbooks. It also support teaching in a host of courses, namely 2nd and 3rd courses on the conceptual and philosophical nature of psychology, social psychology, critical psychology and cognitive science. Selectively, it will also represent a very interesting and different choice for foundation level students too.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: PRICIPLES AND METHODS
Psychoneurology: The Program - Rom Harre and Fathali M Moghaddam
Methods of Research: Cultural/Discursive Psychology - Rom Harre
Methods of Research: Neuroscience and Genetic/Evolutionary Psychology - Rom Harre
The Brain and Consciousness - P. M. S. Hacker
PART TWO: APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Perception - Rom Harre
Becoming a Person - Rom Harre and Christina E. Erneling
Learning and Memory - Brady Wagoner
Social Psychology - Rom Harre, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Gordon Sammut
Motivation and Social Representations - Sandra Jovchelovitch and Vlad P. Glaveanu
Emotion - Rom Harre
Intelligence - Fathali M. Moghaddam
Personality - Rom Harre
Disorders and Treatments - Steven R. Sabat
Psychology and Justice - Fathali M. Moghaddam
Intergroup Relations and Diversity in a Global Context - Fathali M. Moghaddam
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