Authors: Greenwood, John
Division: Higher Education
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-285862-4
ISBN-10: 0072858621
©2009 | 1st Edition | 720 pages , Hardcover
Status: Active, In Print
Price: US$ 154.38
Online Learning Centre: http://www.mhhe.com/greenwood1e
Description | Features | Contents |
A Conceptual History of Psychology is a broad historical survey that traces conceptual continuities and discontinuities in the history of psychological thought. The author connects the history of psychological theory with the development of the history of science, from the proto-scientific psychology of the 17th and 18th centuries to the institutionalized scientific psychology of the late 19th century to the present day. The lucid writing style and clear organization reflect the author's fifteen years' experience teaching the course.- Balances the broader concepts of historical trends with fascinating details of the lives of some major figures in psychological history.
- Chapters end with helpful Discussion Questions and a comprehensive Glossary of Terms.
- Central theme of continuity and discontinuity
- To purchase an electronic eBook version of this title, visit www.CourseSmart.com (ISBN 9780077283162) .
CHAPTER I: HISTORY, SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
WHY STUDY THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY?
Internal and External History
Zeitgeist and Great Man History
Presentist and Contextualist History
Conceptual History of Psychology
SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
Objectivity
Causal Explanation
Empirical Evaluation
Atomism
Universality of Causal Explanation
Ontological Invariance
Explanatory Reduction
Determinism
Experimentation
Empiricism
Scientific Method
PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Discussion Questions; Glossary: References
CHAPTER 2: ANCIENT GREEK SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
GREEK SCIENCE
THE NATURALISTS
Thales
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Empedocles
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus
THE FORMALISTS
Parmenides
Zeno
Pythagoras
THE PHYSICIANS
Acmaeon
Hippocrates
THE PHILOSOPHERS
Socrates
Plato
ARISTOTLE: THE SCIENCE OF THE PSYCHE
Theoretical Science
Causality and Teleology
Aristotle?s Psychology
Materialism and Psychological Explanation
Sensation, Perception and Cognition
Active and Passive Reason
Psychology and Teleology
Functionalism
Consciousness and Vitality
THE ARISTOTELIAN LEGACY
Discussion Questions; Glossary; References
CHAPTER 3: ROME AND THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
THE ROMAN AGE
The Hellenistic Period
Alexandrian Science
Rome and Science
Neoplatonism
The Decline of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire
MEDIEVAL PSYCHOLOGY
Islam
European Recovery: Reason and Faith
The Christian Church and Aristotelian Philosophy
Medieval Christianity and Science
Empiriks
Anticipations
THE END OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Discussion Questions; Glossary; References
CHAPTER 4: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
Reformation
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
The Copernican Revolution
Galileo and the New Science
Andreas Vesalius and the Scientific Revolution in Medicine
Francis Bacon and the Inductive Method
The Newtonian Synthesis
MAN THE MACHINE
Ren? Descartes: Mind and Mechanism
La Mettrie: Machine Man
Thomas Hobbes: Empiricism, Materialism and Individualism
MENTAL MECHANISM AND STIMULUS-RESPONSE PSYCHOLOGY
Discussion Questions; Glossary; References
CHAPTER 5: THE NEWTONIAN PSYCHOLOGISTS
THE NEWTONIAN PSYCHOLOGISTS
Newtonian Science
John Locke: The Underlaborer for Newtonian Science
George Berkeley: Idealism
David Hume: Mental Mechanism
David Hartley: The Neurology of Association
Sensationalists and Ideologues in France
CRITICAL RESPONSES TO NEWTONIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Realism and Common Sense
Rationalist Reaction
Something Completely Different
Romanticism
TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
Discussion Questions; Glossary; References
CHAPTER 6: PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
POSITIVISM
ASSOCIATIONIST PSYCHOLOGY
James Mill: Points of Consciousness
John Stuart Mill: Mental Chemistry and Unconscious Inference
Alexander Bain: Psychology and Physiology
CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION
Franz Joseph Gall: Phrenology
Pierre Flourens: Experimental Physiology
Francoise Magendie: The Bell-Magendie Law
Paul Broca: Aphasia
Gustav Fritsch and Edward Hitzig: The Excitability of the Cerebral Cortex
The Sensory-Motor Theory of the Nervous System
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY IN GERMANY
Johannes Muller: Experimental Physiology
Emil Du Bois-Reymond: Electrophysiology
Hermann von Helmholtz: Physiological Psychology
Ivan Sechenov: Inhibition
Gustaf Fechner: Psychophysics
PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND OBJECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Discussion Questions; Glossary; References
CHAPTER 7: THEORIES OF EVOLUTION
EARLY EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
HERBERT SPENCER: EVOLUTION AS A COSMIC PRINCIPLE
Spencer's Theory of Evolution
Social Darwinism