Is anyone interested in discussing the content of a specific psychology textbook?

[Boojatta]

In particular, we could discuss the question of whether or not the content is science.

If so, then please specify what book you have in mind.

My suggestion is...

Title:
Child Psychology: Development in a Changing Society

Authors:
Vasta, Ross
Miller, Scott A.
Ellis, Shari

A number of inexpensive but good condition copies of the 4th edition (published by Wiley in 2004) seem to be available.

I presume that people who are now working as teachers, and who required official academic credit in a course that used that edition to become teachers, haven't been told that they may lose their jobs unless they pass a special test because authorities have decided that the 2004 edition is riddled with errors and pseudoscience and is completely obsolete.

I think that 2004 is probably recent enough and that it's more important to have a consensus on one particular edition of one particular book that most DU members can afford than it is to use the very latest edition of a textbook.

[Boojatta]

1. Kick

[Boojatta]

2. Kick and ...

Links to some potentially ...

... related ...

... threads ...

... in the DU ...

... Science forum.

[Boojatta]

3. Kick

[Boojatta]

4. Kick with hope of inaugurating a psychological science book club on DU.

[tama]

5. Could you start

by giving your own (working) definition of science and then your view about connection between current scientific theories (physics?) and psychology?