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A history of modern psychology / C. James Goodwin.

By: Goodwin, C. James [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xix, 491 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0471128058 (paperback).Subject(s): Psychology -- History -- 20th century | Psychology -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 150.9
Contents:
Introducing psychology's history -- The philosophical context -- The neurophysiology context -- Wundt and German psychology -- Darwin's century: evolutionary thinking -- American pioneers -- Structuralism and functionalism -- Applying the new psychology -- Gestalt psychology -- The origins of behaviorism -- The evolution of behaviorism -- Psychoanalysis and clinical psychology -- The postwar emergency of cognitive psychology -- Linking psychology's past and present.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Readers will learned about that fascinating individuals who helped create and shape the field of psychology. Without ignoring philosophical roots, this book devotes more space to recent history of psychology, especially the past 150 years. Its treatment of philosophy begins in the general vicinity of Descartes and the British Empiricists. Readers will also discover how these historical figures have dealt with the same type of problems that they face today.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-461) and indexes.

Introducing psychology's history -- The philosophical context -- The neurophysiology context -- Wundt and German psychology -- Darwin's century: evolutionary thinking -- American pioneers -- Structuralism and functionalism -- Applying the new psychology -- Gestalt psychology -- The origins of behaviorism -- The evolution of behaviorism -- Psychoanalysis and clinical psychology -- The postwar emergency of cognitive psychology -- Linking psychology's past and present.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Introducing Psychology's History
  • Psychology and its history
  • Why study history?
  • Why study psychology's history?
  • Key Issues in psychology's history
  • Old versus new history
  • Presentism versus historicism
  • Internal versus external history
  • Personalistic versus naturalistic history
  • Close-Up: Edwin G. Boring (1886-1968)
  • This book's point of view
  • Historiography: Doing and writing history
  • Sources of historical data
  • Problems with the writing of history
  • Data selection problems
  • Interpretation problems
  • Approaching historical truth
  • Chapter 2 The Philosophical Context
  • A long past
  • Descartes and the beginnings of modern philosophy and science
  • Descartes and the rationalist argument
  • The Cartesian system: Rationalism, nativism, and mechanistic interactionism
  • Original Source Excerpt: Descartes on mind-body interactionism
  • The British empiricist argument and the associationists
  • John Locke (1632-1704): The origins of British empiricism
  • Locke on human understanding
  • Locke on education
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753): Empiricism applied to vision
  • British associationism
  • David Hume (1711-1776): The rules of association
  • David Hartley (1705-1757): A physiological associationism
  • Close-Up: Raising a philosopher
  • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): On the verge of psychological science
  • Mill's psychology
  • Mill's logic
  • Rationalist responses to empiricism
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
  • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  • In perspective
  • Chapter 3 The Neurophysiological Context
  • Heroic science in the age of Enlightenment
  • Sensory physiology
  • Reflex action
  • The Bell-Magendie law
  • The specific energies of nerves
  • Helmholtz: The physiologist's physiologist
  • Measuring the speed of neural impulses
  • Helmholtz on vision and audition
  • Helmholtz and the problem of perception
  • Localization of brain function
  • The phrenology of Gall and Spurzheim
  • Close-Up: The marketing of phrenology
  • Flourens and the method of ablation
  • The clinical method
  • The remarkable Phineas Gage
  • Original Source Excerpt: Broca discovers the speech center
  • Mapping the brain: Electrical stimulation
  • Early twentieth century studies of the nervous system and behavior
  • Neuron theory
  • Sir Charles Sherrington: The synapse
  • Karl Lashley: Learning and the cortex
  • Chapter 4 Wundt and German Psychology
  • An education in Germany
  • On the threshold of experimental psychology: Psychophysics
  • Ernst Weber ( 1795-1878)
  • Two-point thresholds
  • Weber's law
  • Gustav Fechner (1801-1889)
  • Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics
  • Wundt establishes a new psychology at Leipzig
  • Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): Creating a new science
  • Wundt's conception of the new psychology
  • Studying imm

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