Methodological thinking in psychology : 60 years gone astray?

In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed. The discipline is operating under the tension between the traditional quantitative and the new qualitative methodologies. New approaches emerge in different fields of psychology and ed...

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Main Author Valsiner, Jaan (Author)
Other Authors Toomela, Aaro (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2010.
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Psychology > Research > Methodology.
Psychology > Research & Methodology.
Psychology.
Psychological methodology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806617371
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-432-8
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Modern mainstream psychology is the best? Noncumulative, historically blind, fragmented, atheoretical / Aaro Toomela
  • Chapter 2. Questions, patterns, and explanations, not hypothesis testing, is the core of psychology as of any science / Stellan Ohlsson
  • Chapter 3. The quantity/quality interchange: A blind spot on the highway of science / Joel Michell
  • Chapter 4. Studying the movement of thought / Alex Gillespie and Tania Zittoun
  • Chapter 5. Understanding a personality as a whole: Transcending the anglo-american methods focus and continental-european holism through a look at dynamic emergence processes / Tatsuya Sato, Kosuke Wakabayashi, Akinobu Named, Yuko Yasuda and Yoshiyuki Watanabe
  • Chapter 6. Metaphors in psychological conceptualization and explanation / Hans Dooremalen and Denny Borsboom
  • Chapter 7. Remembering methodology: Experimenting with bartlett / Brady Wagoner
  • Chapter 8. Reflections on some neglected ideas about psychological measurement from the personalistic perspective of william stern (1871-1938) / James T. Lamiell
  • Chapter 9. Qualitative developmental psychology / Günter Mey
  • Chapter 10. The role of observational methodology and the application of film in early American and European developmental psychology / Kurt Kreppner
  • Chapter 11. What would be gustav theodor fechner legacy for psychology in the 21st century? / Arno Engelmann
  • Chapter 12. Forgotten methodology: Vygotsky's case / Nikolai Veresov
  • Chapter 13. Vygotsky's methodological approach: A blueprint for the future of psychology / Holbrook Mahn
  • Chapter 14. General Conclusion: Have sixty years really gone astray? Back to the future / Aaro Toomela and Jaan Valsiner
  • Contributors.

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