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Pioneers of Psychology

by: Fancher, Raymond E.

Pioneers of Psychology

by: Fancher, Raymond E.

ISBN 13:
9780393969948
ISBN 10:
0393969940
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/17/1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Modern psychology draws on more than three centuries of research and speculation-invariably original, often daring, at times misguided. In this Third Edition of Pioneers of Psychology, Professor Fancher again traces the evolution of this influential science through the personal triumphs and disappointments of a fascinating gallery of individuals, from Descartes, Gall, and Kant to James, Piaget, and Skinner.

Preface to the Third Edition

1 Rene Descartes and the Foundations of Modern Psychology

(33)

Descartes's Early Life and the Development of His Method

(11)

The World: Descartes's Physics and Physiology

(8)

Descartes's Philosophy of Mind

(8)

Descartes's Influence

(2)

Suggested Readings

(2)

2 Philosophers of Mind: John Locke and Gottfried Leibniz

(39)

John Locke: Child of Revolution

(8)

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

(6)

Locke's Influence

(3)

Leibniz's Life and Career

(9)

Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind

(10)

Suggested Readings

(1)

3 Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield

(34)

Gall and Phrenology

(6)

Flourens and the Discrediting of Phrenology

(5)

Localization Theory Revived: The Brain's Language Areas

(9)

Memory and the Equipotentiality of the Brain

(5)

Stimulation of the Conscious Human Brain

100

(6)

Suggested Readings

106

(1)

4 The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: Immanuel Kant, Hermann Helmholtz, and Gustav Fechner

107

(38)

Helmholtz's Early Life

113

(7)

Helmholtz on Sensation and Perception

120

(12)

Fechner's Early Life

132

(5)

The Invention of Psychophysics

137

(7)

Suggested Readings

144

(1)

5 Wilhelm Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology

145

(41)

Wundt's Early Life

149

(8)

Wundt at Leipzig

157

(15)

The Atomism Debate: Titchener versus Gestalt Psychology

172

(7)

Experimenting on the Higher Functions: Kulpe and Ebbinghaus

179

(4)

Wundt's Reputation and Influence

183

(1)

Suggested Readings

184

(2)

6 Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

186

(30)

Darwin's Early Life

188

(4)

The Voyage of the Beagle

192

(5)

The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

197

(8)

Darwin and Psychology

205

(6)

Darwin's Influence

211

(4)

Suggested Readings

215

(1)

7 The Measurement of Mind: Francis Galton and the Psychology of Individual Differences

216

(30)

Galton's Early Life and Career

219

(6)

Darwinian Theory and Hereditary Genius

225

(5)

The Nature-Nurture Controversy

230

(5)

Eugenics

235

(8)

Galton's Influence

243

(2)

Suggested Readings

245

(1)

8 William James and Psychology in America

246

(38)

James's Early Life

248

(7)

James the Teacher

255

(8)

James's Later Career and the Philosophy of Pragmatism

263

(3)

Three Eminent Students: Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike

266

(17)

Suggested Readings

283

(1)

9 Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner

284

(46)

Pavlov's Early Life and Career

286

(4)

Conditioned Reflexes

290

(7)

Watson's Early Life and Career

297

(5)

Watson's Behavioristic Writings

302

(13)

Skinner and Operant Conditioning

315

(13)

Suggested Readings

328

(2)

10 Early Hypnotists and the Psychology of Social Influence

330

(36)

Mesmer and "Animal Magnetism"

331

(7)

Puysegur's "Artificial Somnambulism" and Faria's "Lucid Sleep"

338

(5)

The Founding of "Hypnotism"

343

(3)

The Nancy-Salpetriere Controversy

346

(12)

Le Bon and the Psychology of Crowds

358

(6)

Suggested Readings

364

(2)

11 Mind in Conflict: The Psychoanalytic Psychology of Sigmund Freud

366

(37)

Freud's Early Life

369

(8)

The Interpretation of Dreams

377

(6)

Self-Analysis and the Theory of Childhood Sexuality

383

(5)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

388

(4)

Metapsychology and the Ego's Defense Mechanisms

392

(7)

The Freudian Legacy

399

(2)

Suggested Readings

401

(2)

12 The Developing Mind: Alfred Binet, Jean Piaget, and the Study of Human Intelligence

403

(34)

Binet's Early Life and Career

406

(8)

The Binet Intelligence Scales

414

(4)

The Rise of Intelligence Testing

418

(7)

Piaget's Early Life and Career

425

(4)

Genetic Epistemology

429

(6)

Suggested Readings

435

(2)

13 Minds and Machines: Artificial Intelligence from the Pascaline to General Problem Solver

437

(42)

Implications of the Pascaline

438

(4)

Leibniz and the Mechanization of Logic

442

(4)

Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine

446

(8)

The Turing Machine

454

(4)

Electronic Computers, von Neumann Architecture, and the Turing Test

458

(6)

Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver

464

(5)

Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence

469

(9)

Suggested Readings

478

(1)

Notes

479

(16)

Index

495

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