Psychology the hope of a science

At a time in the history of psychology when many psychologists are troubled by the splintered condition of the field, Gregory Kimble proposes that the diverse perspectives in psychology share ways of thinking that can bring coherence to the discipline. Drawing on years of extensive research and scho...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimble, Gregory A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 1996
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02207nmm a2200301 u 4500
001 EB002070470
003 EBX01000000000000001210560
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 220922 ||| eng
020 |a 0585021317 
020 |a 9780585021317 
050 4 |a BF121 
100 1 |a Kimble, Gregory A. 
245 0 0 |a Psychology  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b the hope of a science  |c Gregory A. Kimble 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass.  |b MIT Press  |c 1996 
300 |a xii, 153 pages  |b illustrations 
653 |a COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology 
653 |a Psychology 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b MITArchiv  |a MIT Press eBook Archive 
500 |a "A Bradford book." 
028 5 0 |a 10.7551/mitpress/5672.001.0001 
776 |z 0262112043 
776 |z 9780262112048 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5672.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 150/.1 
520 |a At a time in the history of psychology when many psychologists are troubled by the splintered condition of the field, Gregory Kimble proposes that the diverse perspectives in psychology share ways of thinking that can bring coherence to the discipline. Drawing on years of extensive research and scholarship, Kimble presents evidence for this potential unity. He portrays psychology as a natural science with relevance to human life and offers a set of axioms that hold the field together. Psychology is a two-part exploration of the concept of psychology as the science of behavior. The first part describes the traditional commitments of the scientific method and spells out the implications of those commitments for psychology. The second part develops a general theory within a framework that can be called functional behaviorism, which combines the imperative that a science of psychology must be about observable realities with the view that human behavior is the result of evolution. Kimble's proposals are of general significance and have stood the test of time: they were reasonably explicit in the writings of the giants in the history of psychology, and they apply in contexts that range from behavioral neurology to social action