Toward a Process Approach in Psychology - Stepping into Heraclitus' River (Hardcover, New edition)

Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to recognize that dynamics, context-specificity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty, are a natural and exciting part of human psychology - these are not things to be avoided and feared, but instead embraced. This requires a shift toward a process-based approach that recognizes the situated, time-dependent, and fundamentally processual nature of psychological phenomena. With complex dynamic systems as a framework, this book sketches out how we might move toward a process-based praxis that is more suitable and effective for understanding human functioning.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2022
Authors:	Paul Van Geert • Naomi de Ruiter
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-49090-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Promotions
LSN:	1-108-49090-5
Barcode:	9781108490900

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