Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language

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SAGE, 06.05.1997 - 214 Seiten
Intelligence, 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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The Ancients
21
The Great Transformation
36
The Physiological Background
51
Putting Intelligence on the
66
Behaviour and Learning ទីនីគឺ ឌ
87
Motivation and Personality
110
Attitudes
134
The Technological Framework
158
The Nature of Psychological Kinds
181
References
195
Index
212
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Seite 197 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.

Autoren-Profil (1997)

Kurt Danziger is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Constructing the Subject (1990) is his most recently published book.

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