Download or read book Persons, Behavior, and the World written by Mary McDermott Shideler and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive survey of Descriptive Psychology. It provides a systematic account of the basic formulations and characteristic methodologies of this discipline which was developed by Peter G. Ossorio of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Ossorio defines Descriptive Psychology as "a set of systematically related concepts which is designed to provide formal access to all the facts and possible facts concerning persons and behavioróand therefore everything else as well."