Psychology: Theoretical-Historical Perspectives

by Rieber, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9781557985248
• ISBN10: 1557985243
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

City Univ. of New York, New York City. Presents major currents of theoretical accounts of psycho- logy. Focuses on some of the central figures in the development of the discipline. Offers analyses of: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the Geneva school. Previous edition: c1980.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(2)
Overview of This Book	xi
I. PSYCHOLOGY BECOMES A SCIENCE: INFLUENCES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT	3	(188)
1. Vicissitudes of Fechnerian Psychophysics in America	3	(14)
Helmut E. Adler
2. Origins of American Psychology in the Work of G. E. Muller: Classical Psychophysics and Serial Learning	17	(60)
Edward J. Haupt
3. Why Study Wundtian Psychology?	77	(12)
Arthur L. Blumenthal
4. Francis Galton and American Psychology	89	(12)
Solomon Diamond
5. William James on the Demise of Positivism in American Psychology	101	(34)
Eugene Taylor
6. Theory and History of Psychology and the Denial and Affirmation of the Self	135	(56)
Anand C. Paranjpe
II. SOCIOECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY	191	(64)
7. Americanization of Psychology Before William James	191	(26)
Robert W. Rieber
8. American Culture and Psychology	217	(10)
David Bakan
9. Diverse Relations Between Psychology and Evolutionary Thought	227	(28)
Howard E. Gruber
III. PSYCHOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE	255	(226)
10. Gestalt Theory and Evolutionary Psychology	255	(34)
David J. Murray
Bahar Farahmand
11. The Experimental Analysis of Operant Behavior: A History	289	(12)
B.F. Skinner
12. The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Behaviorism	301	(54)
Willard F. Day, Jr.
13. The Assimilation of Psychoanalysis in America: From Popularization to Vulgarization	355	(44)
Robert W. Rieber
14. In Tribute to Piaget: A Look at His Scientific Impact in the United States	399	(12)
Gilbert Voyat with an addendum by Howard E. Gruber
15. Genetic Epistemology and Developmental Psychology	411	(12)
Barbel Inhelder
16. Some Recent Research and Its Link With a New Theory of Groupings and Conservations Based on Commutability	423	(6)
Jean Piaget
17. Thought and Things: James Mark Baldwin and the Biosocial Origins of Mind	429	(26)
Robert H. Wozniak
18. Historical and Contemporary Significance of Vygotsky's Sociohistorical Psychology	455	(20)
Carl Ratner
19. Sitzfleisch, the Zeitgeist, and the Hindsightgeist	475	(6)
Kurt D. Salzinger
Author Index	481	(10)
Subject Index	491	(18)
About the Editors	509