A concise history of modern psychology
By: Ronald Bevill McCarver
Publisher: Cognella Acad. Publ.; Cognella Academic Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781621310044
Subjects: Psychology; History; Psychologie; Histoire
Table of contents: title: The evolution of psychology. The evolution of psychology in the United States; title: Historical attitudes toward women; title: Historical attitudes toward African-Americans; title: Character of contemporary psychology: is it an art or is it a science?; title: The mental traits of sex (1903) / by Helen Bradford Thompson [Woolley]; title: The effects of segregation and the consequences of desegregation: a social science statement (1954) / by K.B. Clark, I Chein, and S.W. Cook; title: Philosophical and scientific foundations. Unresolved basic issues; title: Transcendental to rational/empirical explanations; title: The New Organon (1620) / by Francis Bacon; title: The Passions of the soul (1649) / by Rene Descartes; title: The empiricist response to Descartes and the rationalist counter. British empiricist response; title: The rationalist reaction to empiricism; title: An Essay concerning human understanding (1649) / by John Locke; title: Immanuel Kant, excerpt from Critique of pure reason / by Immanuel Kant; title: The missing piece: physiological foundations. Ancient anatomy and physiology; title: Post-renaissance physiology: research on brain anatomy and function; title: Research on the nervous system and "sensory physiology"; title: The specific energies of nerves (1838) / by Johannes Muller; title: On the rate of transmission of the nerve impulse* (1850) / by Hermann von Helmholtz; title: A manual of physiological optics (1898) / by Hermann von Helmholtz; title: Psychophysics and the emergence of scientific psychology. Psychophysics; title: The founding of experimental psychology: Wilhelm Wundt; title: Other early German experimental psychology laboratories; title: Legacy of Wundt's experimental psychology; title: Memory: a contribution to experimental psychology (1885) / by Hermann Ebbinghaus; title: Introduction from Outlines of psychology (1897) / by Wilhelm Wundt; title: Evolutionary theory and its impact on U.S. psychology. Evolutionary theory prior to Darwin; title: Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution; title: Comparative psychology; title: Individual differences; title: An historical sketch of the progress of Opinion on the Origin of species; title: Previously to the publication of the first edition of this work (1859) / by Charles Darwin; title: Natural abilities and the comparative worth of races (1869) / by Francis Galton; title: Early U.S. psychology and the emergence of functionalism and applied psychology. Three major players: William James, G.S. Hall and E.B. Titchener; title: The founding functionalism; title: Applied psychology; title: Psychology: a briefer course (1892) / by William James; title: The method and scope of psychology (1910) / by Edward Bradford Titchener; title: Comprative psychology and behaviorism. Comparative psychology; title: Russian object psychology; title: John Broadus Watson and the behaviorist manifesto; title: Some experiments on animal intellegence (1898) / by Edward Lee Thorndike; title: Psychology as the behaviorist views it (1913) / by John Broadus Watson; title: Behaviorism after Watson (Neobehaviorism). Three neobehaviorists: Tolman, Hull and Skinner; title: Neobehaviorism in perspective; title: Cognitive maps in rats and men (1948) / by Edward C. Tolman; title: Walden two (1948) / By B.F. Skinner; title: Gestalt psychology. The founders and their contributions; title: Some principles of gestalt psychology / An extension of gestalt psychology: field theory; title: Gestalt psychology: legacy and criticism; title: Kurt Koffka, excerpt from "Perception: an introduction to gestalt theorie" (1922) / by Kurt Koffka; title: The mentality of apes (1925) / by Wolfgang Kohler; title: Psychoanalytic psychology: Freud and his disciples. Early views and treatment of mental illness; title: Mesmerism and hypnosis; title: Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis; title: Freud's legacy: his disciples, dissenters and descendants; title: The origin and development of psychoanalysis (1910) / by Sigmund Freud; title: Feminine psychology (1939) / by Karen Horney; title: Humanistic and existential psychology and modern clinical psychology. Philosophical antecedents of humanistic and existential psychology; title: Romanticism; title: Existentialism; title: Humanistic psychology; title: Existential psychology; title: Modern clinical psychology; title: A theory of human motiviation (1943) / by A.H. Maslow; title: Person or science? a philosophical question (1955) / by Carl R. Rogers; title: Concluding remarks: psychology's past, present and future.