The History of Psychology Fundamental Questions

by Munger, Margaret P.

• ISBN13: 9780195151541
• ISBN10: 0195151542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions provides significant excerpts from the philosophers, theologians, and scientists who contributed to the development of psychology. It also includes more recent works covering issues and ideas in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Extensivelyclassroom-tested, this anthology addresses a comprehensive range of topics, yet is suitable for use as a core text or as a supplement in a single-semester course on the history of psychology. The History of Psychology offers selections from: DT Aristotle DT St. Thomas Aquinas DT Rene Descartes DT John Locke DT Immanuel Kant DT Hermann Ebbinghaus DT Charles Darwin DT Margaret Floy Washburn DT Wilhelm Wundt DT Jean Piaget DT B.F. Skinner DT Noam Chomsky and many others. The readings encourage students to consider the foundations of psychology and the questions that led to its emergence as a distinct discipline. Going beyond the presentation and defense of a particular point of view, this collection gives students the opportunity to consider thefundamental questions of psychology. The book is organized into nine thematic sections that are presented chronologically. Each section includes works that cohere thematically to encourage discussion, highlight related topics, and stimulate the classic and more current debates within the field ofpsychology. Every reading is preceded by a brief biography of the author and a note about his or her range of interests and influence. Featuring original works from some of the most important figures in the history of psychology, The History of Psychology is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses on history and systems in psychology and philosophy of psychology.

Table of Contents

What is the mind?

Plato (428/427-348/347 BC)

The Cave

from The Republic

Hippocrates (460-377, BC)

Tradition in Medicine

Dreams

Nature of Man

from The Hippocratic Collection

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Book 1, Chapter 1

Book 3

from de Anima

St. Augustine of Hippo (397)

Memory

from Confessions

St. Thomas Aquinas (1265)

Human nature-embodied spirit

Human abilities-bodily and spiritual

How man knows

from Summa theologiae

Mechanisms of Mind

Rene Descartes (1650)

Treatise of Man

Selections

John Locke (1689)

Of Ideas in General, and their Original

Of Perception

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Gottfied Wilhelm Leibniz (1765)

Of Ideas

from New Essays on Human Understanding

David Hume (1748)

Of the Origin of Ideas

Of the Association of Idea

Of the Idea of Necessary Connection

from An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Immanuel Kant (1798)

On the Cognitive Faculty

from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View

Scientific Methods

Gustav Fechner (1860)

Introduction

Outer Psychophysics

from Elements of Psychophysics

Hermann von Helmholtz (1878)

The Facts of Perception

Speech held at the Commemoration-Day Celebration of the Frederick William University in Berlin, August 3, 1878

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885)

Our Knowledge Concerning Memory

The Method of Investigation

from Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology

Ivan Pavlov (1927)

Lectures on the Work of the Cerebral Hemispheres

from Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex

Emotion and Instinct in Animals and Humans

Charles Darwin (1873)

General Principles of Expression

from Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Margaret Floy Washburn (1907)

The Difficulties and Methods of Comparative Psychology

The Evidence of Mind

from The Animal Mind

William James (1892)

Emotion

Instinct

from Psychology: A Briefer Course

Francis Galton (1907)

The History of Twins

Selection and Race

Influence of Man Upon Race

Conclusion

from Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

Human Development

Milicent W. Shinn (1900)

Baby Biographies in General

The Dawn of Intelligence

from The Biography of a Baby

Sigmund Freud (1910)

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis: Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lectures

from The American Journal of Psychology

Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon (1905)

New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals

from L'Annee Psychologique

Hugo Munsterberg (1913)

Applied Psychology

Means and Ends

Vocation and Fitness

from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency

What is the Goal of Psychology?

Wilhelm Wundt (1894)

Lectures 1 and 30

from Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology

Max Wertheimer (1923-24)

Gestalt theory

Address before the Kant Society, 1924

Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms

from Psychologische Forschung, 1923

B. Titchener (1927)

Ideational type and the Association of Ideas

from Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice

Learning

Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It

from Psychological Review

Edward C. Tolman (1948)

Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men

from Psychological Review

The First Stage of Perception: Growth of the Assembly

from The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory

Cognition

The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six

from The Language and Thought of the Child

Thought and Word

from Mind in Society

The Mand

from Verbal Behavior

Noam Chomsky (1959)

Verbal Behavior, review

from Language

Sir Frederic C. Bartlett (1932)

The Method of Repeated Production

from Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

Ulric Neisser (1967)

The Cognitive Approach

A Cognitive Approach to Memory and Thought

from Cognitive Psychology

Considerations of Context

The Theory of Affordances

from The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing

from Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition

Do Martians See Red?

from Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

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