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A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context

by: King; D. Brett

A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context

by: King; D. Brett

ISBN 13:
9780205963041
ISBN 10:
0205963048
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/10/2013
Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Showcases the fundamental historical principles that form the bedrock of psychology

A History of Psychology: Ideas & Context, 5/e, traces psychological thought from antiquity through early 21st century advances, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and development. This title provides in-depth coverage of intellectual trends, major systems of thought, and key developments in basic and applied psychology.

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Author Biography

D. Brett King has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1990. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of psychology including a book-length biography of the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer, co-authored with Michael Wertheimer. King and his wife, Dr. Cheri King, served as co-archivists for the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. He has won numerous teaching awards and, in 1995, was honored as CU Boulder’s “Best Professor” in a campus-wide student poll conducted by The Colorado Daily, CU Boulder’s campus newspaper.

Wayne Viney is Emeritus Professor and Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology and an undergraduate course in the development of scientific thought. Dr. Viney served as the Head of the Psychology Department at Colorado State University from 1967 to 1973 and as Associate Dean of Natural Sciences and Director of the University Core Curriculum in Biology from 1973 to 1976. He received 17 teaching awards while working at Colorado State. He has served as President of Division 26 Society for the History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the history of psychology.

William Douglas Woody is Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches History and Systems of Psychology at the graduate level. He taught History and Systems of Psychology at the undergraduate level at Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire. In 2006, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology. Additionally, he has received numerous national, university, and college level teaching awards, and including being named Best Professor by the students at two of the three universities where he has taught.

Table of Contents

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents

Part I: Historiographic and Philosophical Issues

Chapter 1: Critical Issues in Historical Studies

Chapter 2: Philosophical Issues

Part II: Early Psychological Thought

Chapter 3: Ancient Psychological Thought

Chapter 4: The Roman Period and the Middle Ages

Chapter 5: The Renaissance

Part III: Modern Intellectual Developments that Contributed to the Birth of Psychology

Chapter 6: Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism

Chapter 7: Rationalism

Chapter 8: Mechanization and Quantification

Chapter 9: Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform

Part IV: Psychology from the Formal Founding in 1879

Chapter 10: Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology

Chapter 11: Developments after the Founding

Chapter 12: Functionalism

Chapter 13: Behaviorism

Chapter 14: Other Behavioral Psychologies

Chapter 15: Gestalt Psychology

Chapter 16: Psychoanalysis

Chapter 17: Humanistic Psychologies

Chapter 18: The Rise of Contemporary Psychology

Full Table of Contents

Part I: Historiographic and Philosophical Issues

Chapter 1: Critical Issues in Historical Studies

Why Study History?

Some Problems in Historiography

The History of the History of Psychology

Chapter 2: Philosophical Issues

Epistemology

The Problem of Causality

Free Will and Determinism

The Mind—Body Problem

The Problem of Explanation

Part II: Early Psychological Thought

Chapter 3: Ancient Psychological Thought

Early Chinese Psychologies

Babylonia

Egypt

Other Ancient Eastern Psychologies

The Hebrews

Persia

Greece

Chapter 4: The Roman Period and the Middle Ages

Roman Medicine

Roman Philosophy

The Fall of Rome

The Early Christian Faith

The Medieval Period

Chapter 5: The Renaissance

The Black Death

A New Worldview: Expanding Geographic Knowledge

Influence of the Greek Classics

Diffusion of Authority

Growth of Empirical Studies

Quantification

Changing Visions of the World

Psychological Thought in the Renaissance

Part III: Modern Intellectual Developments that Contributed to the Birth of Psychology

Chapter 6: Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism

Empiricism

Empiricism on the Continent

Associationism and Utilitarianism

Contributions of Empiricism

Chapter 7: Rationalism

Emphasis on a Priori Knowledge

Theory of the Active Mind

Deduction versus Induction

René Descartes

Baruch Spinoza

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Immanuel Kant

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Thomas Reid and Commonsense Philosophy

Contributions of Rationalism

Chapter 8: Mechanization and Quantification

Thomas Hobbes

René Descartes Revisited

Jan Swammerdam

Niels Stensen

Stephen Hales

Robert Whytt

Johann August Unzer

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis

Mapping the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

Chapter 9: Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform

Evolutionary Theory

Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology

Naturalistic Approaches to Emotional Disorders

Humanitarian Reform

Part IV: Psychology from the Formal Founding in 1879

Chapter 10: Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology

Psychophysics

Wilhelm Wundt

Chapter 11: Developments After the Founding

Systems

Edward Bradford Titchener

Margaret Floy Washburn: A Broader Psychology

Franz Brentano and Act Psychology

Carl Stumpf

Georg Elias Müller

Oswald Külpe and the Würzburg School

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Wundt’s Contemporaries and Applied Psychology

Chapter 12: Functionalism

William James and Harvard University

Hugo Münsterberg

G. Stanley Hall and Clark University

Functionalism and the University of Chicago

Psychology at Columbia University

Mary Whiton Calkins

The Growth of Applied Psychology

Influence of Functionalism: An Evaluation

Chapter 13: Behaviorism

Antecedents of Behaviorism

Formal Founding of American Behaviorism

Behaviorism and Applied Psychology

Chapter 14: Other Behavioral Psychologies

Importance of Learning

Importance of Precision and Clarity

Importance of Experimentation

Early Behavioristic Psychologies

Neobehaviorism

Further Contributions to Applied Psychology from Neobehaviorism

Chapter 15: Gestalt Psychology

Max Wertheimer

Wolfgang Köhler

Kurt Koffka

Intellectual Background of Gestalt Psychology

The Fundamentals of Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt Perspectives on Scientific Method

Mind and Brain

The Influence of Gestalt Psychology

Kurt Lewin and Field Theory

Common Misunderstandings of Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt Psychology and Applied Psychology

The Continuing Relevance of Gestalt Psychology

Chapter 16: Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Freud’s System of Psychology

Neoanalytic Psychologies

Alfred Adler

Carl Gustav Jung

Karen Danielsen Horney

Other Developments

Chapter 17: Humanistic Psychologies

Intellectual Traditions

The Formal Emergence of Humanistic Psychologies

Overview of Third-Force Psychologies: Major Positions and Criticisms

Chapter 18: The Rise of Contemporary Psychology

The Systems of Psychology in Retrospect

Cognitive Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Biopsychology

Social Psychology

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Psychology and the Law

Diversity and Pluralism in Modern Psychology

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