Wilhelm Wundt in History

by Rieber, Robert W.; Robinson, David Keith

• ISBN13: 9780306465994
• ISBN10: 030646599X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Wilhelm Wundt is widely recognized as a founder of modern experimental psychology. One of his many contributions was to help establish the Leipzig Institute for Experimental Psychology - the first graduate program in the field - in 1879, the centennial celebration of which resulted in a number of studies including Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology . In an extensive revision of this important book, first published by Plenum in 1980, a distinguished roster of contributors reconsider this much heralded 'founding father' of modern psychology.

Table of Contents

Wundt before Leipzig	p. 1
A Question of Lifestyle	p. 3
Early Childhood and Family	p. 3
Boyhood and Early Youth	p. 8
Choice of a Career	p. 12
Student Years	p. 14
Postgraduate Training	p. 18
The Iodine Affair	p. 19
The Localization Problem	p. 19
Some Fresh Frustrations	p. 21
Controversy with Hermann Munk	p. 24
Assistant to Helmholtz	p. 26
The Beitrage	p. 29
The Introduction on Method	p. 32
Controversy with Ewald Hering	p. 34
The Swiftest Thought	p. 35
Wundt's "Fireside Conversations"	p. 38
Early Political Activity	p. 39
Lectures on Psychology	p. 41
Three Nonpsychological Books	p. 44
The Complication Pendulum	p. 46
Judgments on Haeckel and Helmholtz	p. 48
"Physiological Psychology" Arrives	p. 50
Research in Neurophysiology	p. 51
Hall, Wundt, and Bernstein	p. 52
Academic Mobility	p. 56
What the Reviewers Said	p. 57
The Inaugurations and Beyond	p. 61
Summary	p. 62
References	p. 63
Wundt and the Temptations of Psychology	p. 69
Does Wundt Matter?	p. 69
Traditions and Their Temptations	p. 71
The Mechanistic Temptation	p. 75
The Temptations of Intellectualism	p. 80
The Temptation of Individualism	p. 85
Postscript: Pitfalls of Wundt Scholarship	p. 89
References	p. 92
The Unknown Wundt: Drive, Apperception, and Volition	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
Wundt's Opposition to the Theories of Lotze and Bain	p. 97
From Impulse to Choice: The Development of Volitional Activity	p. 101
The Apperception Concept and the Experimental Context	p. 109
Some Early Reactions to Wundt's Theories	p. 113
References	p. 118
A Wundt Primer: The Operating Characteristics of Consciousness	p. 121
Presentations of Wundt	p. 121
Wundt's "Actuality Principle"--The Heart of Controversy	p. 127
The Principle of "Creative Synthesis" (Schopferische Synthese)	p. 129
The Influential Wundtian School of Psycholinguistics (Sprachpsychologie)	p. 132
The Emotion System	p. 135
The Volition System	p. 138
Final Days	p. 142
References	p. 142
Wundt and the Americans: From Flirtation to Abandonment	p. 145
The Americanization Process	p. 147
The Functionalist-Structuralist Debate	p. 149
Wundtian Influence and James Mark Baldwin	p. 150
Wundt and Darwinism in America	p. 153
Edward Wheeler Scripture: The Yale Laboratory and the New Psychology	p. 155
Addendum	p. 158
References	p. 159
Reaction-time Experiments in Wundt's Institute and Beyond	p. 161
The Heart of the Work of the Leipzig Institute in the 1880s	p. 162
Reaction-time Studies before the Leipzig Institute	p. 163
Reaction-time Studies in the Leipzig Institute	p. 166
Ludwig Lange's Approach: Muscular vs. Sensorial Reaction	p. 175
Social Organization of Research in the Leipzig Institute: The Set-Up for Experiments	p. 179
Leipzig Psychology Spreads in Europe, 1885-1895	p. 181
Munsterberg's Dissent	p. 184
Wundt's Allies in Germany: Kraepelin and Martius	p. 189
Kulpe's Rejection of the Subtraction Method	p. 193
Structuralism and Functionalism	p. 196
Wundt's Tridimensional Theory of Emotions	p. 197
Reaction Times after 1900	p. 198
References	p. 200
Laboratories for Experimental Psychology: Gottingen's Ascendancy over Leipzig in the 1890s	p. 205
Introduction: Did Wundt's Laboratory Lead the Experimental Movement in Psychology in the Early 1890s?	p. 205
"Gottingen ... Second Only to Leipzig": I Don't Think So!	p. 208
What Is a Laboratory?	p. 209
Krohn and Henri as Evaluators of Laboratories	p. 211
The Equipment of the Laboratories	p. 214
German Equipment Catalogs	p. 218
The Zimmermann Catalog	p. 218
The Diederichs Firm	p. 219
Spindler and Hoyer Catalogs	p. 220
Determining How the Apparatus Worked	p. 221
Conflicts between G. E. Muller and Wilhelm Wundt	p. 222
Wundt's Rejection of Muller's Memory Apparatus	p. 222
Muller and Wundt on the Proper Measurement of Reaction Time	p. 229
Calibrating the Hipp Chronoscope	p. 233
Munsterberg and RT Studies	p. 236
Edgell's Analysis of RT Studies	p. 238
The Accuracy of RT Measurement	p. 240
Evaluation of the Productivity of the Two Laboratories	p. 242
What Remains to Be Said	p. 245
References	p. 246
The Wundt Collection in Japan	p. 251
A Brief History of the Wundt Collection	p. 251
"The Story of the Wundt Collection" (An Excerpt from Daifuku-cho)	p. 253
The Current Status of the Wundt Collection	p. 256
References, with Annotations	p. 258
Bibliography of Wilhelm Wundt's Writings, Compiled by Eleonore Wundt	p. 261
Writings of Wilhelm Wundt, by Year	p. 263
Name Index	p. 297
Subject Index	p. 301
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