1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457321803321

Autore

Wright Peter, M.A., D.Phil.

Titolo

Get set for psychology [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Wright and Hamish Macleod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-50161-8

9786610501618

0-7486-2696-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Get set for university

Altri autori (Persone)

MacleodHamish

Disciplina

150.711

Soggetti

Psychology - Study and teaching (Higher)

Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; 1 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; 2 STATISTICAL THINKING; 3 PRACTICAL CLASSES; 4 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOUR; 5 PERCEPTION; 6 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 7 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; 8 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; 9 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; 10 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LECTURES; 11 LEARNING IN SMALL GROUPS; 12 WRITING TO BE READ; 13 ONLINE LEARNING; 14 PREPARING FOR AND SITTING EXAMINATIONS; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

Provides an introduction to the study of psychology at university level. This book aims to encourage and enable the reader to link a natural interest in human (and animal) behaviour with the sorts of models and theories that are used by academic psychologists.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463411203321

Titolo

Géraud de Cordemoy : six discourses on the distinction between the body and the soul and treatises on metaphysics / / translated with an introduction by Steven Nadler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-105585-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

111.1

Soggetti

Mind and body

Substance (Philosophy) - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of theearliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the true cause of bodily motions in the world and of ideas in the