History of Psychology: Original Sources and Contemporary Research, 3rd Edition

by Ludy T. Benjamin (Texas A & M University)

• ISBN13: 9781405177108
• ISBN10: 1405177101
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The third edition of A History of Psychology is a highly readable compendium of primary source writings from the founders of psychology and works by more contemporary historians. The revised reader includes 17 new articles, 10 of which were written after 2000. Coverage is universal and global - from Locke, Wundt and Skinner to modern scholars such as Henning Schmidgen, Sir Frederic C. Bartlett and George Mandler.Introduces students to the philosophy and methods of historical research and writing, linking primary source readings with contemporary articles Covers Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and historical treatments of race and gender Promotes History of Psychology as an active research specialty A perfect compliment to Benjamin's Brief History of Modern Psychology

Author Biography

Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. is Professor of Psychology and Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University and is holder of the Glasscock Professorship and a Presidential Professorship in Teaching Excellence. His numerous publications include From Seance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America (with David Baker, 2004), A History of Psychology in Letters (second edition 2006, Blackwell) and A Brief History of Modern Psychology (Blackwell, 2007). In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology for his research on the history of psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface

New to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Historiography û Asking and Answering Historical Questions

Philosophical and Physiological Roots of Modern Psychology

On Simple and Complex Ideas (1690)

Tabula Rasa û Its Origins and Implications (1981)

A System of Logic (1843)

On the Speech Center (1861)

Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance: The Work of Paul Broca (1994)

Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of Scientific Psychology

Psychical Elements and Compounds (1896)

A Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt (1975)

Wundt as Chemist? A Fresh Look at his Practice and Theory of Experimentation (2003)

Origins of Scientific Psychology in America

The Stream of Thought (1890)

William James and the Art of Human Understanding (1992)

Tests of the Senses and Faculties (1893)

James McKeen Cattell and the Failure of Anthropometric Mental Testing, 1890û1901 (1982)

The Psychology Laboratory at the Turn of the 20th Century (2000)

Psychological Instruments at the Turn of the Century (2000)

Structuralism and Functionalism

The Method and Scope of Psychology (1910)

The Mistaken Mirror: On WundtÆs and TitchenerÆs Psychologies (1981)

The Province of Functional Psychology (1907)

Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth (1975)

Birth of the New Applied Psychology

Clinical Psychology (1907)

The Clinical Psychology of Lightner Witmer: A Case Study of Institutional Innovation and Intellectual Change (1979)

Tentative Suggestions for the Certification of Practicing Psychologists (1918)

Practicing School Psychology: A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective (2000)

The Influence of Caffein on Mental and Motor Efficiency (1912)

Coca-Cola, Caffeine, and Mental Deficiency

Psychoanalysis

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1910

The Return of the Repressed: PsychologyÆs Problematic Relations with Psychoanalysis, 1909û1960 (1992)

Snapshots of Freud in America, 1899û1999 (2000)

Behaviorism and Neobehaviorism

Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (1913)

Struggle for Scientific Authority: The Reception of WatsonÆs Behaviorism, 1913û1920: (1981)

A System of Behavior (1938)

B. F. SkinnerÆs Technology of Behavior in American Life: From Consumer Culture to Counterculture (2003)

The New Profession of Psychology

Professional Training in the Light of a Changing Science and Society

The Affirmation of the ScientistûPractitioner: A Look Back at Boulder (2000)

The Boulder ModelÆs Fatal Flaw (2000)

The Boulder Model: A Dream Deferred û Or Lost? (2000)

The ScientistûPractitioner Model: Gandhi Was Right Again (2000)

A Psychology of Social Change: Race and Gender

The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation: A Social Science Statement (1952)

Kenneth B. Clark in the Patterns of American Culture (2002)

The Mental Traits of Sex [Woolley] (1903)

Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children (1916)

he First Generation of Women Psychologists and the Psychology of Women (2000)

Cognitive Psychology

Gestalt Theory (1924)

A Theory of Remembering (1932)

Origins of the Cognitive (R)evolution (2002)

References

Index

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