Introduction to the History of Psychology

Name: Introduction to the History of Psychology
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ISBN: 9780534551827

ISBN-10: 0534551823

ISBN-13: 9780534551827

Edition: 4th 2001

Authors: B. R. Hergenhahn

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List price: $115.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/7/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.596

Preface	p. xv
Websites to Explore History of Psychology	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Problems in Writing a History of Psychology	p. 1
Why Study the History of Psychology?	p. 3
What Is Science?	p. 5
Revisions in the Traditional View of Science	p. 7
Is Psychology a Science?	p. 10
Persistent Questions in Psychology	p. 14
Summary	p. 19
Discussion Questions	p. 20
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 21
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 21
Glossary	p. 21
The Early Greek Philosophers	p. 24
The World of Precivilized Humans	p. 24
Early Greek Religion	p. 25
The First Philosophers	p. 25
Early Greek Medicine	p. 32
The Relativity of Truth	p. 34
Plato	p. 37
Aristotle	p. 40
The Importance of Early Greek Philosophy	p. 47
Summary	p. 48
Discussion Questions	p. 50
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 51
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 51
Glossary	p. 51
After Aristotle: A Search for the Good Life	p. 55
Skepticism and Cynicism	p. 55
Epicureanism and Stoicism	p. 57
Neoplatonism	p. 59
Emphasis on Spirit	p. 62
The Dark Ages	p. 67
The Arabic and Jewish Influences	p. 68
Reconciliation of Faith and Reason	p. 71
Scholasticism	p. 71
William of Occam: A Turning Point	p. 76
The Spirit of the Times Before the Renaissance	p. 77
Summary	p. 78
Discussion Questions	p. 79
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 80
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 80
Glossary	p. 80
The Beginnings of Modern Science and Philosophy	p. 83
Renaissance Humanism	p. 83
Further Challenges to Church Authority	p. 87
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo	p. 88
Isaac Newton	p. 94
Francis Bacon	p. 96
Rene Descartes	p. 99
Summary	p. 106
Discussion Questions	p. 107
InfoTrak College Edition	p. 107
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 107
Glossary	p. 108
Empiricism, Sensationalism, and Positivism	p. 110
British Empiricism	p. 110
French Sensationalism	p. 139
Positivism	p. 146
Summary	p. 150
Discussion Questions	p. 151
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 152
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 152
Glossary	p. 153
Rationalism	p. 156
Baruch Spinoza	p. 157
Nicholas de Malebranche	p. 161
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz	p. 161
Thomas Reid	p. 165
Immanuel Kant	p. 167
Johann Friedrich Herbart	p. 171
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	p. 174
Summary	p. 176
Discussion Questions	p. 178
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 178
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 179
Glossary	p. 179
Romanticism and Existentialism	p. 181
Romanticism	p. 182
Existentialism	p. 189
Summary	p. 198
Discussion Questions	p. 199
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 200
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 200
Glossary	p. 200
Early Developments in Physiology and the Rise of Experimental Psychology	p. 202
Individual Differences	p. 202
Discrepancy Between Objective and Subjective Reality	p. 202
Bell-Magendie Law	p. 203
Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies	p. 204
Hermann von Helmholtz	p. 206
Ewald Hering	p. 211
Christine Ladd-Franklin	p. 212
Early Research on Brain Functioning	p. 214
The Rise of Experimental Psychology	p. 219
Summary	p. 225
Discussion Questions	p. 227
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 227
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 227
Glossary	p. 228
Voluntarism, Structuralism, and Other Early Approaches to Psychology	p. 230
Voluntarism	p. 231
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt	p. 231
Edward Bradford Titchener	p. 239
Other Early Approaches to Psychology	p. 244
Summary	p. 253
Discussion Questions	p. 255
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 256
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 256
Glossary	p. 256
The Darwinian Influence	p. 258
Evolutionary Theory Before Darwin	p. 258
Charles Darwin	p. 262
Sir Francis Galton	p. 266
Intelligence Testing After Galton	p. 270
The Binet-Simon Scale in the United States	p. 278
Intelligence Testing in the Army	p. 285
The Deterioration of National Intelligence	p. 287
Summary	p. 289
Discussion Questions	p. 291
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 292
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 292
Glossary	p. 293
Functionalism	p. 295
Early U.S. Psychology	p. 295
Characteristics of Functionalistic Psychology	p. 297
William James	p. 297
Hugo Munsterberg	p. 306
Granville Stanley Hall	p. 312
Functionalism at the University of Chicago	p. 318
Functionalism at Columbia University	p. 322
The Fate of Functionalism	p. 331
Summary	p. 331
Discussion Questions	p. 333
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 334
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 334
Glossary	p. 335
Behaviorism	p. 337
The Background of Behaviorism	p. 337
Russian Objective Psychology	p. 338
John B. Watson and Behaviorism	p. 348
William McDougall: Another Type of Behaviorism	p. 362
Summary	p. 366
Discussion Questions	p. 368
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 369
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 369
Glossary	p. 369
Neobehaviorism	p. 371
Positivism	p. 371
Logical Positivism	p. 371
Operationism	p. 372
Physicalism	p. 373
Neobehaviorism	p. 373
Edward Chace Tolman	p. 374
Clark Leonard Hull	p. 380
Edwin Ray Guthrie	p. 384
Burrhus Frederic Skinner	p. 388
Behaviorism Today	p. 395
Summary	p. 397
Discussion Questions	p. 398
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 399
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 399
Glossary	p. 400
Gestalt Psychology	p. 402
Antecedents of Gestalt Psychology	p. 402
The Founding of Gestalt Psychology	p. 404
Isomorphism and the Law of Pragnanz	p. 409
Perceptual Constancies	p. 412
Perceptual Gestalten	p. 412
Subjective and Objective Reality	p. 415
The Gestalt Explanation of Learning	p. 415
Productive Thinking	p. 419
Memory	p. 420
Lewin's Field Theory	p. 421
The Impact of Gestalt Psychology	p. 425
Summary	p. 425
Discussion Questions	p. 426
InofTrac College Edition	p. 427
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 427
Glossary	p. 427
Early Diagnosis, Explanation, and Treatment of Mental Illness	p. 430
What Is Mental Illness?	p. 430
Early Explanations of Mental Illness	p. 431
Early Approaches to the Treatment of Mental Illness	p. 432
Gradual Improvement in the Treatment of Mental Illness	p. 437
The Tension Between the Psychological and Medical Models of Mental Illness	p. 444
The Use of Hypnotism	p. 446
Summary	p. 452
Discussion Questions	p. 453
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 454
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 454
Glossary	p. 454
Psychoanalysis and Its Early Alternatives	p. 456
Antecedents of the Development of Psychoanalysis	p. 456
Sigmund Freud	p. 458
Early Influences on the Development of Psychoanalysis	p. 461
Studies on Hysteria	p. 464
Project for a Scientific Psychology	p. 465
Freud's Self-Analysis	p. 467
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life	p. 470
Freud's Trip to the United States	p. 471
A Review of the Basic Components of Freud's Theory of Personality	p. 471
Freud's View of Human Nature	p. 477
Freud's Fate	p. 478
Revisions of the Freudian Legend	p. 479
Evaluation of Freud's Theory	p. 483
Anna Freud's Contributions to Psychoanalysis	p. 485
Early Alternatives to Psychoanalysis	p. 488
Summary	p. 496
Discussion Questions	p. 500
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 501
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 501
Glossary	p. 501
Humanistic (Third-Force) Psychology	p. 505
The Mind, the Body, and the Spirit	p. 505
Antecedents of Third-Force Psychology	p. 506
Phenomenology	p. 507
Existential Psychology	p. 508
Humanistic Psychology	p. 518
Comparison of Existential and Humanistic Psychology	p. 528
Evaluation	p. 529
Summary	p. 530
Discussion Questions	p. 533
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 534
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 534
Glossary	p. 534
Cognitive Psychology	p. 537
Development before 1950	p. 537
Development during the 1950s	p. 538
Development after the 1950s	p. 540
Artificial Intelligence	p. 542
Information-Processing Psychology	p. 544
Summary	p. 547
Discussion Questions	p. 548
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 548
Suggested Readings	p. 548
Glossary	p. 548
Psychobiology	p. 550
Karl S. Lashley	p. 550
Donald O. Hebb	p. 551
Roger W. Sperry	p. 553
New Connectionism	p. 555
Behavioral Genetics	p. 559
Summary	p. 564
Discussion Questions	p. 566
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 566
Suggested Readings	p. 566
Glossary	p. 566
Contemporary Psychology	p. 568
The Diversity of Contemporary Psychology	p. 568
The Tension Between Pure, Scientific, and Applied Psychology	p. 570
Psychology's Status as a Science	p. 577
Postmodernism	p. 578
Is There Anything New in Psychology?	p. 580
Summary	p. 581
Discussion Questions	p. 583
InfoTrac College Edition	p. 583
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 583
Glossary	p. 583
Significant Individuals and Events in the History of Psychology	p. 585
References	p. 591
Credits	p. 621
Name Index	p. 623
Subject Index	p. 631
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