Thinking Clearly Psych 2Vol Set
Thinking Clearly Psych Set
Published on 1. December 1991
Book
Hardback
2 pages
978-0-8166-1918-4 (ISBN)
Description
This two-volume compendium affords the opportunity for some of the most influential theorists and researchers in clinical psychology and relevant disciplines to address contral issues in their fields. Their topics include the current state of psychology, the philosophy of psychology, the concept of placebo, and clinical prediction. These essays provide a forum for discussing the work of one of the most influential clinical psychologists of the 20th century, Paul Meehl.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1918-4 (9780816619184)
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Content
Volume 1. Essays on matters of public interest - Part 1 The state of psychology: what's wrong with psychology anyway?, David T. Lykken; psychology as an historical science - efforts to disentangle science B from science A, W. Grant Dahlstrom; some myths of science in psychology, Leonard G. Rorer. Part 2 Philosophy: Gods and atoms - comments on the problem of reality, Paul Feyerabend; of clouds and clocks - an approach to the problem of rationality and the freedom of man, Karl Raimund Popper; the placebo concept in medicine and psychiatry, Adolf Grunbaum. Part 3 Clinical versus statistical prediction: human mind versus regression equation - five contrasts, Lewis R. Goldberg; what if we had listened? - present reflections on altered pasts, David Faust; why clinicians still use their heads instead of the formula, Benjamin Kleinmuntz; probablistic versus causal thinking, Robyn M. Dawes. Volume 2. Essays on individual differences - Part 1 Personality and abilities: the originating self, B.F. Skinner; personality traits - issues of definition, evidence and assessment, Auke Tellegan; personality structure and the trait-situation controversy - on the uses of low correlations, Lane Loevinger; not personality scales, personality items, Paul H. Blaney; deception, rational man, and other rocks on the road to a personality psychology of real people, Brendan A. Maher; agency and communion as conceptual coordinates for the understanding and measurement of interpersonal behaviour, Jerry S. Wiggins; some unfinished business, Harrison G. Gough; are intelligence tests the only way to assess intelligence?, George S. Welsh; some unconventional analyses of resemblance coefficients for male and female monozygotic and dizygotic twins,, Lloyd G. Humphreys; a twice told tale - twins reared apart, Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. Part 2 Methodology: construct validity - history and application to developmental psychopathology, Judy Garber and Zvi Strassberg; bootstrapping taxometrics - on the development of a method for detection of a single major gene, Robert R. Golden; mixed and mixed-up models for the transmission of schizophrenia - homage to P.E. Meehl, I.I. Gottesman and M. McGue; the validity of taxometric inferences based on cluster analysis stopping rules, William M. Grove. Part contents.