A History of Psychology, Fourth Edition

by Benjafield, John G.

• ISBN13: 9780199007929
• ISBN10: 0199007926
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A History of Psychology explores the fascinating story of psychology as a discipline while also discussing how thinkers and eras are linked to one another. Placing historical events within philosophical, social, and cultural contexts, this text invites students to develop a full understanding of how the field of psychology developed and is practiced today.

Author Biography

John G. Benjafield, Retired Professor,

John G. Benjafield is professor emeritus at Brock University, where he taught cognition and the history of psychology for over 30 years. He is currently a Fellow of both the Canadian Psychology Association and the American Psychological Society and has written extensively, including the first three editions of OUP's Cognition.

Table of Contents

1. Psychology and History
Studying the History of Psychology
The New History of Psychology
The New History of Science
Feminism and the Psychology of Women
Psychology as a Social Construction
Reconciling the "Old" and "New" Histories of Psychology
2. Touchstones: The Origins of Psychological Thought
Touchstones
Pythagoras (570-495 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
Lao-tzu (sixth century BC)
Aristotle (384-323 BC)
Averroes (1126-98) and the Re-introduction of Aristotle into European Thought
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and the Medieval View of the Universe
3. Touchstones: From Descartes to Darwin
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The British Empiricists: John Locke (1602-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776)
James Mill (1773-1836) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
4. The Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Psychology
J.F. Herbart (1776-1841)
G.T. Fechner (1801-1887)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1884)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
5. Wundt and His Contemporaries
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)
The Wurzburg School
6. William James
The Principles of Psychology
7. Freud and Jung
The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Karen Horney (1885-1952) and the Psychology of Women
C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
8. Structure or Function?
Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)
Functionalism
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Robert S. Woodworth (1869-1962)
Intelligence Testing
Psychology in Business
Comparative Psychology
9. Behaviourism
Ivan P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927)
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958)
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
10. Gestalt Psychology and the Social Field
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967)
Kurt Koffka (1886-1941)
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) and the Emergence of Social Psychology
Fritz Heider (1896-1988)
Leon Festinger (1919-1989)
Solomon Asch (1907-1996)
Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965)
11. Research Methods
Philosophy of Science
Experimental Methods
R.A. Fisher (1890-1962)
Correlational Methods
Charles Spearman (1863-1945)
Cyril Burt (1883-1971)
Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955)
Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001) and "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology"
Qualitative Research Methods
12. Theories of Learning
Ernest R. Hilgard (1904- 2001)
E.R. Guthrie (1886-1959)
Clark L. Hull (1884-1952)
Kenneth W. Spence (1907-1967)
Charles E. Osgood (1916-1991)
E.C. Tolman (1886-1959)
The Verbal-Learning Tradition
D.O. Hebb (1904-1985)
Albert Bandura (1925-)
13. The Developmental Point of View
G. Stanley Hall (1884-1924)
James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934)
Heinz Werner (1890-1964)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Barbel Inhelder (1913-97)
L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Erik H. Erikson (1902-94)
Eleanor J. Gibson (1910-2002)
14. Humanistic Psychology
Existentialism
The Emergence of Humanistic Psychology
Charlotte Malachowski Buhler (1893-1974)
Rollo May (1909-1994)
Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987)
What Happened to Humanistic Psychology?
George A. Kelly (1905-1967)
15. Cognitive Psychology
The Concept of "Information"
Noam Chomsky (1928- )
George A. Miller (1920- )
Jerome S. Bruner (1915- )
Sir Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969)
Ulric Neisser (1928-2012)
Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
16. The Future of Psychology
Does Psychology Have Paradigms?
Why Have So Many Psychologists Found the Paradigm Concept Congenial?
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and the Language of Psychology
Psychology, Modernism, and Postmodernism
The Future of the History of Psychology
Bibliography
Glossary
Index