Psychology Exposed (Psychology Revivals)

Or the Emperor's New Clothes

Paul Kline

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Routledge
21 September 2016

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Experimental psychology; Psychology: emotions; The self, ego, identity, personality

Series: Psychology Revivals

Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be called the human psyche. His erudite, amusing, and provocative text outlines the crucial influence of the development of scientific method before examining key experiments within cognitive psychology and cognitive science, psychometrics, social psychology, and animal behaviour. Is most of experimental psychology trivial, redundant, and irrelevant? The academic subject cannot continue to ignore its critics, he argued, and must solve its problems by means of radical solutions. Whether they support or refute Professor Kline’s arguments, students and professionals alike will still enjoy this original book.

By: Paul Kline
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138905153
ISBN 10: 1138905151
Series: Psychology Revivals
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 21 September 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface. 1. The Problem 2. What the Scientific Method is and Why Psychologists use it 3. The Discoveries of Cognitive Psychology: Models of Memory. Are They of Any Value? 4. Psychometrics: Measuring the Soul or Rendering it to Ashes? 5. Attitudes, Attributions, and Group Processes in the Laboratory and Beyond 6. Cognitive Science: Electrons or Human Beings? 7. Animal Psychology 8. A Way Ahead. Bibliography. Index.

Paul Kline