Encounters with Great Psychologists: Twelve Dramatic Portraits
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0921332092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kunkel was Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Western Ontario until his retirement. To contact the author: jkunkel@asu . He continues to teach now at the Arizona State University. John H
Watson, B. The psychologists included are: Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Binswanger, John B. Accompanying the fascinating interchanges are overviews of the life and times of the psychologists and an outline of their main theories. This book presents in a dramatically different form the major issues of psychology. Fictionalized conversations between twelve of the most important psychologist and their colleagues, friends, and students convey the thinking behind their ideas in a fresh and lively manner. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Kurt Lewin, and
Encounters with Great Psychologists is to be recommended to those who are overwhelmed by the detailed substance of introductory psychology texts which emphasize the nitty-gritty of psychological research, its varied topics, its apparatus, procedures, and statistical methods of assuring the reliability and validity of its data. The "encounters" come off very well indeed. Many teachers of psychology may wish to assign this book in addition to a standard test. John Kunkel has chosen a unique method to provide this acquaintan