A History of Psychology Ideas and Context

by King, D. Brett; Viney, Wayne; Woody, William Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780205512133
• ISBN10: 0205512135
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-27
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context, Third Edition, is a comprehensive history of psychology tracing psychological thought from ancient times through late twentieth-century developments.The reader is presented with a framework for interpreting the pedagogy of philosophy through the development of historiography and philosophical problems in the opening chapters. The book gives in-depth coverage to the intellectual trends that preceded the formal founding of psychology, coupled with an analysis of the major classical systems of thought and the key developments in the history of basic and applied psychology. The final epilogue focuses on the major trends in psychology in the latter half of the twentieth century.Designed for anyone interested in the history of psychology, systems of psychology or systematic psychology.

Author Biography

D. Brett King has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1990.  He is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of psychology including a book-length biography of the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer, co-authored with Michael Wertheimer.  King and his wife, Dr. Cheri King, served as co-archivists for the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.  He has won numerous teaching awards and, in 1995, was honored as CU Boulder’s “Best Professor” in a campus-wide student poll conducted by The Colorado Daily, CU Boulder’s campus newspaper.

 

Wayne Viney is Emeritus Professor and Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology and an undergraduate course in the development of scientific thought. Dr. Viney served as the Head of the Psychology Department at Colorado State University from 1967 to

1973 and as Associate Dean of Natural Sciences and Director of the University Core Curriculum in Biology from 1973 to 1976. He received 17 teaching awards while working at Colorado State. He has served as President of Division 26 Society for the History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the history of psychology.

 

William Douglas Woody is Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches History and Systems of Psychology at the graduate level.  He taught History and Systems of Psychology at the undergraduate level at Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire.  In 2006, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology.  Additionally, he has received numerous national, university, and college level teaching awards, and including being named Best Professor by the students at two of the three universities where he has taught.

Table of Contents

Historical Studies: Some Issues

Why Study History?

Some Problems in Historiography

The History of the History of Psychology

Internal and External History

Philosophical Issues

Epistemology

The Problem of Causality

Free Will and Determinism

The Mind-Body Problem

Ancient Psychological Thought

Early Chinese Psychologies

Babylonia

Egypt

Other Ancient Far-Eastern Psychologies

The Hebrews

Persia

Greece

The Roman Period and the Middle Ages

Roman Medicine

Roman Philosophy

The Fall of Rome

The Early Christian Faith

The Medieval Period

The Renaissance

Effect of the Plague

Expanding Geographic Knowledge

Influence of the Greek Classics

Growth of Empirical Studies

Quantification

Changing Visions of the World

Psychological Thought in the Renaissance

Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism

Empiricism

Empiricism on the Continent

Associationism and Utilitarianism

Rationism

Emphasis on a Priori Knowledge

Theory of Active Mind

Deduction versus Induction

Rene Descartes

Baruch Spinoza

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Immanuel Kant

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Thomas Reid and Common Sense Psychology

Mechanization and Quantification

Thomas Hobbes

Rene Descartes Revisited

Jan Swammerdam

Neils Stensen

Stephen Hales

Robert Whytt

Johann August Unzer

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Pierre-Jean Georges Cabanis

Mapping the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform Evolutionary Theory

Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology

Naturalistic Approaches to Emotional Disorders

Humanitarian Reform

Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology

Psychophysics

Wilhelm Wundt

Developments After the Founding

Systematic Extension: Edward Bradford Titchener

Franz Brentano and Act Psychology

Carl Stumpf

Georg Elias Maller

Oswald Kalpe and the Warzburg School

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Wundt's Contemporaries and Applied Psychology

Functionalism

Harvard University

Functionalism and the University of Chicago

Psychology at Columbia University

Mary Whiton Calkins

The Growth of Applied Psychology

Influence of Functionalism: An Evaluation

Behaviorism

Antecedents of Behaviorism

Formal Founding of American Behaviorism

Other Behavioral Psychologies

Importance of Learning

Importance of Precision and Clarity

Importance of Experimentation

Early Behavioristic Psychologies

Neobehaviorism

Further Contributions to Applied Psychology from Neobehaviorism

Gestalt Psychology

Max Wertheimer

Wolfgang Kahler

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