| Description |
1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index. |
| Summary |
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, other people and the physical world. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ashworth, Peter D. Psychology and 'human nature'. London ; Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, 2000 0415212995 (DLC) 00033761 (OCoLC)43985535 |
| ISBN |
0203171276 (electronic book) |
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9780203171271 (electronic book) |
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1280401273 |
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9781280401275 |
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