| Casting Nets and Testing Specimens: Two Grand Methods of Psychology Revised and Upd Edition Contributor(s): Runkel, Philip Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0974015571 ISBN-13: 9780974015576 Publisher: Living Control Systems Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: This is a professional book about the methods that are used to reach conclusions about the nature and behavior of humans. It argues that the method of specimens is more appropriate than the method of relative frequencies to discover how the human animal, as a species, functions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Research & Methodology - Psychology | Experimental Psychology - Science |
| Dewey: 150.72 |
| LCCN: 2007936248 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 8.25" W x 11" (1.08 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Runkel reviews current psychological research methods (i.e., 'casting nets') and tells the reader in an easily understandable way what kinds of information the methods do and do not provide. Any research method is a tool appropriate in some but not all situations. The mainstream research tools of psychology are not sufficient to explain individual behavior and its causes. Following this review, the reader is familiarized with the concept of causation and with W.T. Powers's Perceptual Control Theory, the framework necessary for a change in perspective on human behavior (i.e., 'testing specimens'). The author explains how an appropriate investigation of causation in individual human behavior should be designed and then expands the view to an interaction between individuals. |