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The analysis of practical skills
W. T. Singleton
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Paperback. Series: Croom Helm Biology in Medicine Series. Num Pages: 346 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 600.
The origins of this book are in my first attempts to understand psychology as a post-war student in the Cambridge of the late 1940s. Sir Frederic Bartlett and his colleagues in the Psychology Department were talking and writing about the concept of the skill as the fundamental unit of behaviour. This made entire sense to me but not apparently to very many other people because the movement dwindled rapidly with the retirement of Sir Frederic in 1952. It got lost within performance studies which were essentially behaviouristic and stimulus-response in origin, a quite different style of thinking from the gestalt ... Read more
The origins of this book are in my first attempts to understand psychology as a post-war student in the Cambridge of the late 1940s. Sir Frederic Bartlett and his colleagues in the Psychology Department were talking and writing about the concept of the skill as the fundamental unit of behaviour. This made entire sense to me but not apparently to very many other people because the movement dwindled rapidly with the retirement of Sir Frederic in 1952. It got lost within performance studies which were essentially behaviouristic and stimulus-response in origin, a quite different style of thinking from the gestalt ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Series
Croom Helm Biology in Medicine Series
Number of Pages
333
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401161909
SKU
V9789401161909
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