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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Psychology, history of"”.
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Forging a Social Science of Prevention in the United States, 1950-2005
This thesis offers a critical account of the rise of “prevention science,” a field that coalesced in the United States during the 1990s. Prevention scientists borrow methods from public health and evidence-based medicine to design preventative interventions for a range of problems they deem …
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Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism
… dissertation provides a missing intellectual history of an ostensibly dead idea. Once widely held and no less elegant for its obsolescence, the principle of biogenetic recapitulation is best remembered by its defining mantra, “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” Among psychologists and …
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Cognitive aspects of pictorial address and seriality in art: A practice-led investigtion
… applies theories and findings from cognitive psychology to notions of pictorial address and seriality in art. It is interdisciplinary and practice-led, culminating in a written outcome and a portfolio of creative work. The thesis suggests a model for the exchange of ideas within experimental …
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
The life of Magda Arnold (1903-2002)—best known for her pioneering appraisal theory of emotion—spanned the 20th century, and she witnessed the rise and fall of many of the major “schools” of psychology. Arnold had an unusual perspective on these theories of psychology, due in large part to an event …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the …