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The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Jaan Valsiner

    1. Developmental Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Perspectives on Individual Differences (PIDF)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Where is the Individual Subject in Scientific Psychology?

    1. Introduction: Where is the Individual Subject in Scientific Psychology?

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 1-14

  3. Individual-Based Inference Methodology: Past, Present, and the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Psychology as a Science

      • Isaac Franck
      Pages 17-36

    3. From Idiographic Approaches to Nomothetic Hypotheses

      • Klaus E. Grossmann
      Pages 37-69

    4. The Production, Detection, and Explanation of Behavioral Patterns

      • Warren Thorngate
      Pages 71-93

  4. Group versus Individual-Based Inference in Psychology: Logic and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Phenomena Lost

      • Robert B. Cairns
      Pages 97-111

    3. Between Groups and Individuals

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 113-151

    4. The Individual Subject in Behavior Analysis Research

      • F. Charles Mace, Thomas R. Kratochwill
      Pages 153-180

    5. The Time Domain in Individual Subject Research

      • Evelyn B. Thoman
      Pages 181-200

    6. Ordinal Pattern Analysis

      • Warren Thorngate, Barbara Carroll
      Pages 201-232

  5. Toward the Study of Individual Subjects: Contributions from Different Fields in Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Academic Diagnosis

      • Herbert P. Ginsburg
      Pages 235-260

    3. A Method for the Analysis of Patterns, Illustrated with Data on Mother-Child Instructional Interaction

      • Barbara Rogoff, Mary Gauvain
      Pages 261-290

    4. The Role of the Case Study in Neuropsychological Research

      • Jane Dywan, Sidney J. Segalowitz
      Pages 291-310

    5. Psychophysiological Activation Research

      • Peter Walschburger
      Pages 311-345

    6. Sequence—Structure Analysis

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 347-389

  6. Epilogue: Different Perspectives on Individual-Based Generalizations in Psychology

    1. Epilogue: Different Perspectives on Individual-Based Generalizations in Psychology

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 391-404

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 405-408
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Developmental Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Jaan Valsiner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology

  • Editors: Jaan Valsiner

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Individual Differences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2239-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42250-8Published: 31 October 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2241-0Published: 09 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2239-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 408

  • Topics: Biological Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Sciences

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