Connections In The History And Systems Of Psychology

by Thorne, B. Michael; Henley, Tracy

• ISBN13: 9780618415120
• ISBN10: 0618415122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-17
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This comprehensive, scholarly text offers extensive biographical detail and full coverage of psychology's pre-19th century philosophical and scientific roots. The authors make connections between recent developments in psychometrics and biological, social, and cognitive psychology and their historical roots through current articles and references. This critical-thinking approach, combined with groundbreaking pedagogy, makes the text interesting and accessible to students and helps them understand the thinking processes that led to major psychological discoveries, as well as how they relate to contemporary specialty areas. Of the nearly 200 new references incorporated into the text, more than 100 are dated after 2000 and the remainder from 1990-2000. A timeline of notable psychological and historical events appears inside the front and back covers of the text for easy access. The text provides extensive coverage of women and minorities in a field dominated by Caucasian men. Timelines or chronologies for each chapter connect developments in psychology to world events in politics, science, and the arts.

Table of Contents

Note: Each chapter ends with Conclusions, a Summary, Key Names and Terms, and Suggested Readings

Introduction

Why Study the History of Psychology?

Thoughts About History Where Do We Start?

Some of Psychology\'s Recurring Issues

Organization of the Book About Psychology and Science

Precursors to Psychology in Ancient Greece

The Golden Age of Greece Philosophy in the Golden Age

Medicine in the Golden Age and Beyond Connections Questions

The Roman Period and the Middle Ages

Philosophical and Theological Thought During the Roman Period

The Rise of Christianity

Christianity, Islam, and Jewish

Philosophy of the Medieval Era

Christian Philosophy in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Science Before the Renaissance

Universities in the Middle Ages

Connections Questions

The Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophers

The Renaissance

The Early Modern Philosophers

Connections Questions

Empiricism, Associationism, Positivism, and Common-Sense Psychology

British Empiricism

British Associationism

French Empiricism

Positivism

The Scottish School

Connections Questions

Continental Philosophies: Rationalism, Romanticism, and Existentialism

Rationalism

Romanticism

Existentialism

Connections Questions

Physiological Influences on the Development of Psychology

Review of Early Speculation

Electricity and Nerve function

Localization of function

Psychophysics

Connections Questions

The Origins of Modern Scientific Psychology in Germany Wilhelm

Maximilian Wundt and Voluntarism Edward Bradford

Titchener and Structuralism

Franz Brentano and Act Psychology

Carl Stumpf Edmund Husserl

Hermann Ebbinghaus Georg Elias

M?ller Oswald K?lpe

Connections Questions

Darwin\'s Influence Pre-Darwinian Evolution

Charles Robert Darwin Francis Galton

Connections Questions

Early American Psychology

Early Philosophy and Psychology in America William James Mary Whiton Calkins Hugo M?nsterberg

Granville Stanley Hall

Early Studies of Gender Differences: The Work of Leta Stetter Hollingworth James McKeen Cattell James Mark Baldwin

Connections Questions

Functionalism John Dewey James Rowland Angell Harvey A. Carr Robert Sessions Woodworth Edward Lee

Thorndike Women in American\'s First School

Connections Questions

Animal Psychology and Early Behaviorism

Animal Psychology

Objective Psychology in Russia

John Broadus Watson

Connections Questions

Neobehaviorism Edwin Ray Guthrie Edward Chace Tolman Clark Leonard Hull

Hull\'s Students and Associates

B. F. Skinner Ecological Psychology

Connections Questions

Gestalt Psychology

Founding Gestalt Psychology: The Phi Phenomenon

Gestalt Psychology\'s Antecedents

Gestalt Psychology\'s Triumvirate

Principles of Gestalt Psychology

Kurt Lewin Lesser-Known

Gestalt Psychologists

Gestalt Psychology\'s Influence

Connections Questions

Psychoanalysis

Early Treatment of the Mentally Ill

Hypnosis Existent

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