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Psychology and 'human nature'
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Psychology and 'human nature'

Author: Peter D Ashworth
Publisher: Hove, East Sussex : Psychology Press ; Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis, 2000.
Series: Psychology focus.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Looks at the major schools of psychology and considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature' and their position on the associated issues of consciousness, the self, the body,  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter D Ashworth
ISBN: 0415212995 0415213002 9780415212991 9780415213004
OCLC Number: 43985535
Description: x, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: psychology and 'human nature' --
1. The ultimate biological motive: the evolutionary perspective --
2. Mental conflict: biological drives and social reality --
3. An inner world: cognitive psychology --
4. ... Not separable from the world: Skinner's radical behaviourism --
5. The individual consciousness: anxiously free in a meaningless world --
6. Social being: interacting, and presenting oneself as a person --
7. 'Human nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition --
8. Conclusion.
Series Title: Psychology focus.
Responsibility: Peter Ashworth.
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