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History of Psychology Original Sources and Contemporary Research

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ISBN-10: 1405177101

ISBN-13: 9781405177108

Edition: 3rd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Ludy T. Benjamin

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The third edition of A History of Psychology is a highly readable compendium of primary source writings from the founders of psychology and works by more contemporary historians. The revised reader includes 17 new articles, 10 of which were written after 2000. Coverage is universal and global - from Locke, Wundt and Skinner to modern scholars such as Henning Schmidgen, Sir Frederic C. Bartlett and George Mandler. Introduces students to the philosophy and methods of historical research and writing, linking primary source readings with contemporary articles Covers Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and historical treatments of race and gender Promotes History of Psychology as…    
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Book details

List price: $68.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Preface
New to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Historiography � Asking and Answering Historical Questions
Philosophical and Physiological Roots of Modern Psychology
On Simple and Complex Ideas (1690)
Tabula Rasa � Its Origins and Implications (1981)
A System of Logic (1843)
On the Speech Center (1861)
Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance: The Work of Paul Broca (1994)
Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of Scientific Psychology
Psychical Elements and Compounds (1896)
A Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt (1975)
Wundt as Chemist? A Fresh Look at his Practice and Theory of Experimentation (2003)
Origins of Scientific Psychology in America
The Stream of Thought (1890)
William James and the Art of Human Understanding (1992)
Tests of the Senses and Faculties (1893)
James McKeen Cattell and the Failure of Anthropometric Mental Testing, 1890�1901 (1982)
The Psychology Laboratory at the Turn of the 20th Century (2000)
Psychological Instruments at the Turn of the Century (2000)
Structuralism and Functionalism
The Method and Scope of Psychology (1910)
The Mistaken Mirror: On Wundt�s and Titchener�s Psychologies (1981)
The Province of Functional Psychology (1907)
Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth (1975)
Birth of the New Applied Psychology
Clinical Psychology (1907)
The Clinical Psychology of Lightner Witmer: A Case Study of Institutional Innovation and Intellectual Change (1979)
Tentative Suggestions for the Certification of Practicing Psychologists (1918)
Practicing School Psychology: A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective (2000)
The Influence of Caffein on Mental and Motor Efficiency (1912)
Coca-Cola, Caffeine, and Mental Deficiency
Psychoanalysis
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1910
The Return of the Repressed: Psychology�s Problematic Relations with Psychoanalysis, 1909�1960 (1992)
Snapshots of Freud in America, 1899�1999 (2000)
Behaviorism and Neobehaviorism
Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (1913)
Struggle for Scientific Authority: The Reception of Watson�s Behaviorism, 1913�1920: (1981)
A System of Behavior (1938)
B. F. Skinner�s Technology of Behavior in American Life: From Consumer Culture to Counterculture (2003)
The New Profession of Psychology
Professional Training in the Light of a Changing Science and Society
The Affirmation of the Scientist�Practitioner: A Look Back at Boulder (2000)
The Boulder Model�s Fatal Flaw (2000)
The Boulder Model: A Dream Deferred � Or Lost? (2000)
The Scientist�Practitioner Model: Gandhi Was Right Again (2000)
A Psychology of Social Change: Race and Gender
The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation: A Social Science Statement (1952)
Kenneth B. Clark in the Patterns of American Culture (2002)
The Mental Traits of Sex [Woolley] (1903)
Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children (1916)
he First Generation of Women Psychologists and the Psychology of Women (2000)
Cognitive Psychology
Gestalt Theory (1924)
A Theory of Remembering (1932)
Origins of the Cognitive (R)evolution (2002)
References
Index