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This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics
within Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, presented
within a framework designed to help you focus on assessment and
exams. The text encapsulates all the subject matter listed in the
BPS Qualifying Examination syllabus for Conceptual and Historical
Issues in Psychology. The sequence of chapters is organised
temporally, and focuses on how the major conceptual issues in
psychology have been handled over time. Further, in each case, the
relevance of historical discourses to contemporary psychology is
emphasised. Sample questions, assessment advice and exam tips drive
the organisation within chapters so you are able to grasp and
marshal your thoughts towards revision of the main topics. Features
focused on critical thinking, practical applications and key
research will offer additional pointers for you in your revision
process and exam preparation. A companion website provides
supporting resources for self testing, exam practice, answers to
questions in the book, and links to further resources.
Balancing readability with intellectual rigor, this is an essential
guide to understanding the complex relationship between psychology,
science, and pseudoscience. At a time when unempirical data and
evidence is increasingly purported as justification for scientific
claims in the public consciousness, Hughes considers its impact
upon the very philosophy behind the scientific principles behind
the methods that produce research findings. Further, he examines
the controversial research practices and biases in the
psychological field that threaten the integrity of its claims. This
book undertakes a fascinating contemplation and sagacious analysis
of the historical and contemporary debates regarding psychological
methods and research. Written to suit 3rd year undergraduate
students and MA/MSc students in psychology as well as academics and
the more general reader interested in these subject issues.
This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and
unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of
non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing
pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout
history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time
beginning with the 'Long War' in present day Afghanistan and
concluding with warfare in classical Greece. Along the way it
engages with conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and
regional rebellion in Tudor England. Each case study provides
unique insights into the practices, experiences, and discourses
that have shaped this ubiquitous type of conflict. Readers
interested in rebellion and repression, cultural and tactical
interpretations of conflict, civilian strategies in wartime, the
supposed 'western way of war', and the ways in which participants
have framed and related their actions across a variety of spheres
will find much of interest in these pages.
What is modern psychology and how did it get here? How and why did
psychology come to be the world's most popular science? A
Conceptual History of Psychology charts the development of
psychology from its foundations in ancient philosophy to the
dynamic scientific field it is today. Emphasizing psychology's
diverse global heritage, the book explains how, across centuries,
human beings came to use reason, empiricism, and science to explore
each other's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The book skilfully
interweaves conceptual and historical issues to illustrate the
contemporary relevance of history to the discipline. It shows how
changing historical and cultural contexts have shaped the way in
which modern psychology conceptualizes individuals, brains,
personality, gender, cognition, consciousness, health, childhood,
and relationships. This comprehensive textbook: - Helps students
understand psychology through its origins, evolution and cultural
contexts - Moves beyond a 'great persons and events' narrative to
emphasize the development of the theoretical and practical concepts
that comprise psychology - Highlights the work of minority and
non-Western figures whose influential work is often overlooked in
traditional accounts, providing a fuller picture of the field's
development - Includes a range of engaging and innovative learning
features to help students build and deepen a critical understanding
of the subject - Draws on examples from contemporary politics,
society and culture that bring key debates and historical
milestones to life - Meets the requirements for the Conceptual and
Historical Issues component of BPS-accredited Psychology degrees.
This textbook will provide students with invaluable insight into
the past, present and future of this exciting and vitally important
field. Read more from Brian Hughes on his blog at thesciencebit.net
This book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26
counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range
of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in
1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence and Irish
participation in the British armed and colonial service up to the
declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here
examine who southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to
them, how they expressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish
independence and their experiences afterwards. The collection
offers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution
and the early years of southern independence, based on original
archival research. It addresses issues of particular
historiographical and political interest during the ongoing 'Decade
of Centenaries', including revolutionary violence, sectarianism,
political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather
than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923, this book - like the
lives with which it is concerned - continues into the first decades
of southern Irish independence. List of contributors: Frank Barry,
Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean
Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel
Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald
Wood
Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language,
Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most
demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice.
Individual chapters deal with legal English as a linguistic system,
special concepts in the translation of legal English, the genres of
legal translation, and offer a series of practical problems
together with discussions of proposed solutions, as well as insight
into the pragmatic ways translators go about finding solutions. The
numerous examples and discussions of specific terms make the book
useful both as a manual in the translation class and as an
invaluable reference work for students, teachers, self-learners and
professional translators.
Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language,
Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most
demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice.
Individual chapters deal with legal English as a linguistic system,
special concepts in the translation of legal English, the genres of
legal translation, and offer a series of practical problems
together with discussions of proposed solutions, as well as insight
into the pragmatic ways translators go about finding solutions. The
numerous examples and discussions of specific terms make the book
useful both as a manual in the translation class and as an
invaluable reference work for students, teachers, self-learners and
professional translators.
This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and
unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of
non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing
pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout
history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time
beginning with the 'Long War' in present day Afghanistan and
concluding with warfare in classical Greece. Along the way it
engages with conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and
regional rebellion in Tudor England. Each case study provides
unique insights into the practices, experiences, and discourses
that have shaped this ubiquitous type of conflict. Readers
interested in rebellion and repression, cultural and tactical
interpretations of conflict, civilian strategies in wartime, the
supposed 'western way of war', and the ways in which participants
have framed and related their actions across a variety of spheres
will find much of interest in these pages.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler is a sporting legend. Often called the
greatest middleweight boxer of all time, he held the world title
for 12 defences, including bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas
Hearns and Roberto Duran which entered fistic folklore. From his
wild early fights in the boxing wilderness of Brockton,
Massachusetts, Brian and Damian Hughes trace the blazing trail of
Hagler's career: the controversial defeats subsequently avenged, a
riot-scarred title win in London, and his unification of the
middleweight crown. Hagler became a huge favourite, taking on all
comers while never taking a step back. And so to The Ring
magazine's "greatest round of all time" against Hearns, his
ferocious battle with Duran, and the still-controversial loss to
his nemesis Leonard. Marvelous tells the story of Hagler's
extraordinary life for the first time, separating truth from myth
to get right to the heart of a complex and charismatic man.
What is modern psychology and how did it get here? How and why did
psychology come to be the world's most popular science? A
Conceptual History of Psychology charts the development of
psychology from its foundations in ancient philosophy to the
dynamic scientific field it is today. Emphasizing psychology's
diverse global heritage, the book explains how, across centuries,
human beings came to use reason, empiricism, and science to explore
each other's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The book skilfully
interweaves conceptual and historical issues to illustrate the
contemporary relevance of history to the discipline. It shows how
changing historical and cultural contexts have shaped the way in
which modern psychology conceptualizes individuals, brains,
personality, gender, cognition, consciousness, health, childhood,
and relationships. This comprehensive textbook: - Helps students
understand psychology through its origins, evolution and cultural
contexts - Moves beyond a 'great persons and events' narrative to
emphasize the development of the theoretical and practical concepts
that comprise psychology - Highlights the work of minority and
non-Western figures whose influential work is often overlooked in
traditional accounts, providing a fuller picture of the field's
development - Includes a range of engaging and innovative learning
features to help students build and deepen a critical understanding
of the subject - Draws on examples from contemporary politics,
society and culture that bring key debates and historical
milestones to life - Meets the requirements for the Conceptual and
Historical Issues component of BPS-accredited Psychology degrees.
This textbook will provide students with invaluable insight into
the past, present and future of this exciting and vitally important
field. Read more from Brian Hughes on his blog at thesciencebit.net
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book examines
the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It
is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant
revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the
local populations in which they operated, and the actions or
inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing on
the period of guerilla war against British rule from c. 1917 to
1922, it uncovers the acts of 'everyday' violence, threat, and harm
that characterized much of the revolutionary activity of this
period. Moving away from the ambushes and assassinations that have
dominated much of the discourse on the revolution, the book
explores low-level violent and non-violent agitation in the Irish
town or parish. The opening chapter treats the IRA's challenge to
the British state through the campaign against servants of the
Crown - policemen, magistrates, civil servants, and others - and
IRA participation in local government and the republican
counter-state. The book then explores the nature of civilian
defiance and IRA punishment in communities across the island before
turning its attention specifically to the year that followed the
'Truce' of July 1921. This study argues that civilians rarely
operated at either extreme of a spectrum of support but, rather, in
a large and fluid middle ground. Behaviour was rooted in local
circumstances, and influenced by local fears, suspicions, and
rivalries. IRA punishment was similarly dictated by community
conditions and usually suited to the nature of the perceived
defiance. Overall, violence and intimidation in Ireland was
persistent, but, by some contemporary standards, relatively
restrained. Additional resources supporting this book can be found
on the Liverpool University Press Digital Collaboration Hub
(https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/projects/defying-the-ira)
Jock McAvoy was influenced by his poor 1930s background. A
ferocious fighter, a special kind of person who fought hard to give
his family a better standard of living. Many older boxing
journalists believe that the romance of the ring and its hungry
exponents rest, almost entirely, in the years gone by. The 1930s
were, without doubt, the greatest period in British boxing history.
On the social side, this period was hard and desolate: there was no
welfare state, conditions of employment for this generation were
oppressive, everyone worked for wages that allowed no margin for
illness. If a man didn't work, he and his family went hungry. Man
was at his best when up against it and thousands fought to put food
on the table for their families. "McAvoy: Portrait of a Fighting
Legend" lays not only a man but an era to rest.
Throughout the history of psychology, attempting to objectively
measure the highly dynamic phenomenon of human behaviour has given
rise to an underappreciated margin of error. Today, as the
discipline experiences increasing difficulty in reproducing the
results of its own studies, such error not only threatens to
undermine psychology's credibility but also leaves an indelible
question: Is psychology actually a field of irreproducible science?
In this thought-provoking new book, author Brian Hughes seeks to
answer this very question. In his incisive examination of the
various pitfalls that determine 'good' or 'bad' psychological
science - from poor use of statistics to systematic exaggeration of
findings - Hughes shows readers how to critique psychology
research, enhance its validity and reliability, and understand the
strengths and weaknesses of the way psychology research is
produced, published, and promulgated in the 21st century. This book
is essential reading for students wanting to understand how to
better scrutinise psychological research methods and results, as
well as practitioners and those concerned with the replication
debate.
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