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Psychology and 'human nature' / Peter Ashworth

By: Contributor(s): Series: Psychology Focus / series editor : Perry HintonPublication details: East Sussex, U.K. : Psychology Press, 2000Description: x, 198 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0415212995
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150 ASH
Contents:
List of illustrations. - Series preface. - Introduction : psychology and 'human nature'. - 1. The ultimate biological motive : the evolutionary perspective. - 2. Mental conflict : biological drives and social reality. - 3. An inner world : cognitive psychology. - 4. Not separable from the world : Skinner's radical behaviourism. - 5. The individual consciousness : anxiously free in a meaningless world. - 6. Social being : interacting, and presenting oneself as a person. - 7. 'Human Nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition. - 8. Conclusion. - Glossary. - Bibliography. - Index.
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List of illustrations. - Series preface. - Introduction : psychology and 'human nature'. - 1. The ultimate biological motive : the evolutionary perspective. - 2. Mental conflict : biological drives and social reality. - 3. An inner world : cognitive psychology. - 4. Not separable from the world : Skinner's radical behaviourism. - 5. The individual consciousness : anxiously free in a meaningless world. - 6. Social being : interacting, and presenting oneself as a person. - 7. 'Human Nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition. - 8. Conclusion. - Glossary. - Bibliography. - Index.