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R. B. Joynson

Psychology and Common Sense

R. B. Joynson

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English
Routledge
03 March 2025
Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
Series: Psychology Revivals
Originally published in 1974, a vigorous debate was in progress among psychologists about the fundamentals of psychology and its future. In particular, the value and reliability of the method of objective experiment in the field of behaviourism was being challenged. The distinguished psychologist R. B. Joynson was at the centre of this controversy, and in this book he argues persuasively that ordinary good sense provides an extensive and often highly reliable understanding of human nature. He maintains that academic psychology gives far too little weight to this factor, and that it raises far-reaching and difficult questions which may require a radical re-appraisal of the aims and methods of psychology.

The author notes two objections made by common sense to the conclusions of psychologists: that they frequently lack novelty, and that, alternatively, they seem to bear little relation to human nature as common sense understands it. The method of objective experiment, favoured by behaviourism, is examined, and its severe limitations are surveyed. Finally, the gradual, if frequently covert, return of psychology to the concepts of mental life is traced – a development which inevitably raises once more the perennial, unsolved problems of mind and body, and brings our everyday understanding of human nature back into the centre of the picture.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
Weight:   390g
ISBN:   9781032966441
ISBN 10:   1032966440
Series:   Psychology Revivals
Pages:   126
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Adult education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface. 1. The Layman’s Understanding 2. The Rejection of Mind 3. The Breakdown of Objective Experiment: Outer Conditions 4. The Breakdown of Objective Experiment: Inner Conditions 5. The Return of Mind 6. The Psychologist’s Task. Bibliography. Index.

Robert B. Joynson (1922–2015) studied at the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. From 1948 onwards he taught at the University of Nottingham, with the exception of one year (1967-68) where he taught at Howard University, Washington D.C. At the time of publication he was Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Nottingham.

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