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Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0470228113

ISBN-13: 9780470228111

Edition: 2010

Authors: C. James Goodwin, Goodwin

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Goodwin presents psychologists with an innovative new book that offers a set of important readings along with a running annotation that addresses the meaning of the reading's content. This includes a look at how the content relates to the contemporary historical context and the significance of the material for psychology's history. Each chapter begins with basic biographical information about the writer and concludes with narrative that places the writings in their historical context and explains their significance. Brief explanations, elaborations, or narrative that aims to connect the different segments are integrated throughout the excerpts from that person's writing. Psychologists will…    
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Book details

List price: $249.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.80" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter Previews
Rationalist and Empiricst Epistemologies
Rene Descartes (1596-1650): Mind-Body Interactionism
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): British Empiricism Firsthand
Nineteenth Century Studies of the Brain
Francois Magendie (1783-1855): The Bell-Magendie Principle
Paul Broca (1824-1880): The Case of "Tan"
The "New Psychology" Emerges
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): A New Scientific Psychology
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909): On Memory
Comparative Psychology
Willard S. Small (1870-1943): Inventing Maze Learning
Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949): Cats in Puzzle Boxes
American Pioneers
William James (1842-1910): On Consciousness and Emotion
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930): Experiments on Association
Structuralism and Functionalism
E. B. Titchener (1867-1927): A Structural Psychology
James Rowland Angell (1869-1949): A Functional Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Kurt Koffka (1886-1941): Gestalt Psychology and Perception
Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967): Problem Solving in Apes
Nature/Nurture
Francis Galton (1822-1911): The Inheritance of Mental Ability
Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957): The Kallikak Study
Origins of Behaviorism
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936): Conditioned Reflexes
John Broadus Watson (1878-1958): A Behaviorist Manifesto
Evolution of Behaviorism
Edward C. Tolman (1886-1959): Cognitive Maps
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990): An Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1887-1967): The Clark Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Karen Horney (1885-1952): Conflict, Anxiety, and Neurosis
Clinical Psychology
Lightner Witmer (1867-1956): The Psychological Clinic
Mary Cover Jones (1896-1987): Behavior Therapy
Six and Race
Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939): Sex Differences in Aptitude
Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005) and Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983): The Doll Studies
Industrial Psychology
Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955): Psychology and Advertising
Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916): Applying Psychology to Business
Mental Testing
James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944): Mental Tests
Alfred Binet (1857-1911): The Binet-Simon Tests of Intelligence
Personality & Social Psychology
Gordon Allport (1897-1967): The Uniqueness of Personality
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947): The Leadership Studies
Cognitive Psychology
Frederick C. Bartlett (1886-1969): Constructive Memory
John Jenkins (1901-1948) and Karl Dallenbach (1887-1971): Interference and Memory
Humanistic Psychology
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970): A Hierarchy of Needs
Carl Rogers (1902-1987): The Therapeutic Environment
References
Index