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ISBN: 9780072858624 / 0072858621
Division: Higher Education
Pub Date: JAN-08
Pages: 720

Copyright: 2009
Edition: 1
Format: Hardback
   
A Conceptual History of Psychology

John Greenwood


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About the book

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.
Key features

  • Balances the broader concepts of historical trends with fascinating details of the lives of some major figures in psychological history.
  • Brings names and dates to life for students, putting a human face on them to make them more memorable and meaningful.
  • Examples throughout such as Watson's physiological measures of the female orgasm; Hull's race against illness; Skinner's avowal that he would rather sacrifice his daughters than his books, if given the choice.
  • How might additional context and stories of key figures' lives increase student engagement and retention'
  • Central theme of continuity and discontinuity
  • Helps students to understand how theories evolved in their social-historical context.
  • Example: See the discussion of the fundamental continuity between the psychology of Aristotle, the Wurzburg school, and contemporary cognitive psychology.
  • How might your students benefit from a consistent theme to tie together all of the theories, theorists, and years you must cover in your History of Psychology course'
  • Chapters end with helpful Discussion Questions and a comprehensive Glossary of Terms.
  • Pedagogy helps to ease discussion for instructors, while helping students to study and review.
  • What role does discussion play in your course' How might review material in each chapter help your students'
  • End of each chapter
  • To purchase an electronic eBook version of this title, visit www.CourseSmart.com (ISBN 9780077283162) .

  • About the author

    John Greenwood
    John D Greenwood was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, and teaches in the departments of philosophy and psychology at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His many books and articles include Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science (Springer-Verlag, 1989), Realism, Identity and Emotion (Sage, 1994) and The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2004).



    Table of contents


    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

    Rene 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

    Evolutionary Psychology

    Spencer's Impact

    CHARLES DARWIN: EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION

    The Voyage of the Beagle

    The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

    Darwin's Delay

    The Reception of Darwin's Theory

    The Descent of Man

    Darwin, Racism, and Sexism

    Neo-Darwinism

    Darwin's Influence on Psychology

    FRANCIS GALTON: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND EUGENICS

    Individual Differences

    Nature and Nurture

    Eugenics

    MENTAL EVOLUTION AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

    Spalding on Instinct

    George John Romanes: Animal Intelligence

    Conwy Lloyd Morgan: Morgan's Canon and Emergent Evolution

    STIMULUS-RESPONSE PSYCHOLOGY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 8: PSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY

    PSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY BEFORE WUNDT

    Johann Friedrich Herbart: Dynamic Psychology

    WILHELM WUNDT: PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

    The Leipzig Laboratory

    Physiological Psychology

    Experimental Methods

    Wundt's Psychology

    Volkerpsychologie

    Wundt's Legacy

    Wundt's American Students

    GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY BEYOND LEIPZIG

    Hermann Ebbinghaus: On Memory

    George Elias Muller: The Experimentalist

    Franz Brentano: Intentionality

    Carl Stumpf: The Berlin Institute of Experimental Psychology

    Oswald Kulpe: The Wurzburg School

    Gestalt Psychology

    APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 9: PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA: THE EARLY YEARS

    PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

    The Success of Psychology

    Philosophy and Psychology

    Applied Psychology

    JAMES AND MUNSTERBURG AT HARVARD

    William James

    Hugo Munsterberg

    LADD AND SCRIPTURE AT YALE

    HALL AT JOHNS HOPKINS AND CLARK

    Johns Hopkins and the New Psychology

    Clark and Genetic Psychology

    The American Psychological Association

    Adolescence and Sex

    Old Age

    APPLYING THE WUNDTIAN SKELETON: CATTELL, WITMER, SCOTT AND WOLF

    James McKeen Cattell: Mental Testing

    Lightner Witmer: Clinical Psychology

    Walter Dill Scott: Industrial Psychology

    Harry Kirk Wolfe: Scientific Pedagogy

    EDWARD B. TITCHENER AND STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Structural Psychology

    Inspection and Introspection

    Volkerpsychologie and Applied Psychology

    The Experimentalists

    Imageless Thought

    The Eclipse of Structural Psychology

    SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 10: FUNCTIONALISM, BEHAVIORISM AND MENTAL TESTING

    THE TURN TO APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

    FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Baldwin and Titchener on Reaction-Time

    John Dewey: Purpose and Adaptation

    James Rowland Angell: The Province of Functional Psychology

    Social Engineering

    BEHAVIORISM

    Background to Behaviorism

    Animal Psychology

    Edward B. Thorndike: The Law of Effect

    Ivan Pavlov: Classical Conditioning

    John B. Watson: Psychology as The Behaviorist Views It

    MENTAL TESTING, IMMIGRATION, AND STERILIZATION

    The Binet-Simon Intelligence Test

    Goddard And The Feebleminded

    The First World War and the Army Testing Project

    Immigration and Sterilization

    THE STATUS OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 11: NEOBEHAVIORISM, RADICAL BEHAVIORISM, AND THE PROBLEMS OF BEHAVIORISM

    NEOBEHAVIORISM

    Logical Positivism

    Operationism

    Edward C. Tolman: Purposive Behaviorism

    Clark L. Hull: A Newtonian Behavioral System

    RADICAL BEHAVIORISM

    Operant Conditioning

    Explanatory Fictions

    Radical Behaviorism

    THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGY

    Psychological Contributions to the War Effort

    The Reorganization of the APA

    Post-War Expansion

    PROBLEMS OF BEHAVIORISM

    Chomsky's Critique of Skinner

    The Misbehavior of Organisms

    Contiguity and Frequency

    Consciousness and Conditioning

    The Neurophysiology of Learning

    THE EVE OF THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 12: THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION

    INFORMATION THEORY

    Claude Shannon: Communication Theory

    Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics

    Donald Broadbent: Information Processing

    Computers and Cognition

    COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

    Jerome Bruner: Higher Mental Processes

    George Miller: Cognitive Science

    Strategies, Programs, and Plans

    Ulric Neisser: Cognitive Psychology

    The Cognitive Revolution

    THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION

    The Cognitive Revolution as 'Paradigm-Shift'

    From Intervening Variables to Cognitive Hypothetical Constructs

    COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR

    Structuralism and Anthropomorphism

    The Cognitive Tradition

    Criticism and Connectionism

    THE SECOND CENTURY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 13: ABNORMAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

    NEUROSES, ALIENISTS AND PSYCHIATRY

    THE REFORM OF ASYLUMS

    MAGNETISM, MESMERISM AND HYPNOSIS

    FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

    Studies on Hysteria

    Psychosexual Development

    The Reception of Freud's Theory

    The Scientific Status of Freud's Theory

    SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

    ECT, LOBOTOMY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

    Psychoactive Drugs and Institutional Care

    The Myth of Mental Illness

    POST-WAR CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Clinical Training

    HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY

    INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    CHAPTER 14: SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

    SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Early German and American Social Psychology

    Individualistic Social Psychology

    Social Psychology in the Post-War Period

    DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Scientific Psychology and Developmental Psychology

    Cognitive Development

    Discussion Questions; Glossary; References

    EPILOGUE: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY

     

     

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