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By Brent D. Slife,Richard N. Williams

This quantity encourages scholars to interact in severe considering by way of exploring the most assumptions upon which behavioral technological know-how theories are dependent and supplying a few choices to those assumptions.

The textual content starts with a evaluate and critique of the foremost theoretical techniques: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, cognitivism, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism. The authors then talk about the main assumptions underlying those theories - understanding, determinism, reductionism and technological know-how. They hint the highbrow background of those assumptions and supply contrasting innovations. The ebook concludes by way of reading methods of coming to phrases with a few of the inadequacies within the assumptions of the behavioral sciences.

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