Title: Thinking in psychological science : ideas and their makers /
Authors: Valsiner, Jaan
Publisher: Transaction Publishers,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Psychology History; Psychologists Biography; Psychology history
Contents: Introduction--how our future can be observed in our past : mental bases for scientific inquiry / Jaan Valsiner -- Karl Duncker and cognitive science / Herbert A. Simon -- Life as the problem : Karl Duncker's context / Simone Schnall -- Duncker's account of productive thinking : exegesis and application of a problem-solving theory / Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds -- Duncker's analysis of problem-solving as microdevelopment / Kurt Fischer and Jeffrey Stewart -- The pleasure of thinking : a glimpse into Karl Bühler's life / Jaan Valsiner -- Remembering Karl Bühler : discovering unanticipated resemblances with my distancing-representational model / Irving E. Sigel -- Bühler's legacy : full circle and ahead / Nancy Budwig -- Arnold Gesell and the maturation controversy / Thomas C. Dalton -- Alexander F. Chamberlain : a life's work / Julia Berkman -- The fate of the forgotten : Chamberlain's work reconsidered / Jaan Valsiner --Tamara Dembo's European years / René van der Veer -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : Tamara Dembo and rehabilitation psychology / Simone de Lima -- Tamara Dembo's socio-emotional relationships / Joseph de Rivera -- The legacy of Adolf Meyer's comparative approach : Worcester rats and the strange birth of the animal model / Cheryl A. Logan -- Zing-Yang Kuo : personal recollections and intimations of developmental science / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Kuo's epigenetic vision for psychological sciences : dynamic developmental systems theory / Robert Lickliter.