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Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
Edition
2nd edition
Publish Year
2004
Updated ISBN1
1119770734
Updated ISBN2
9781119770732
ISBN
9780471415657

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0471415650
ISBN-13
9780471415657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038804

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
History of Modern Psychology
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Author
C. James Goodwin
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.7 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
7.6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2004-041888
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
150.9/04
Table Of Content
1. Introducing Psychology\'s History. Psychology and its history. Why study history? Why study psychology's history? Key Issues in psychology's history. Old versus new history. Presentism versus historicism. Internal versus external history. Personalistic versus naturalistic history. Close-Up:?Edwin G. Boring (1886-1968). This book's point of view. Historiography: Doing and writing history. Sources of historical data. Problems with the writing of history. Data selection problems. Interpretation problems. Approaching historical truth. Chapter 2. The Philosophical Context. A long past. Descartes and the beginnings of modern philosophy and science. Descartes and the rationalist argument. The Cartesian system: Rationalism, nativism, and mechanistic interactionism. Original Source Excerpt:?Descartes on mind-body interactionism. The British empiricist argument and the associationists. John Locke (1632-1704): The origins of British empiricism Locke on human understanding. Locke on education. George Berkeley (1685-1753): Empiricism applied to vision British associationism. David Hume (1711-1776): The rules of association. David Hartley (1705-1757): A physiological associationism. Close-Up:?Raising a philosopher. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): On the verge of psychological science. Mill's psychology. Mill's logic. Rationalist responses to empiricism. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). In perspective. Chapter 3. The Neurophysiological Context. Heroic science in the age of Enlightenment. Sensory physiology. Reflex action. The Bell-Magendie law. The specific energies of nerves. Helmholtz: The physiologist's physiologist. Measuring the speed of neural impulses. Helmholtz on vision and audition. Helmholtz and the problem of perception. Localization of brain function. The phrenology of Gall and Spurzheim Close-Up:?The marketing of phrenology. Flourens and the method of ablation. The clinical method. The remarkable Phineas Gage. Original Source Excerpt:?Broca discovers the speech center. Mapping the brain: Electrical stimulation. Early twentieth century studies of the nervous system and behavior. Neuron theory. Sir Charles Sherrington: The synapse. Karl Lashley: Learning and the cortex. Chapter 4. Wundt and German Psychology. An education in Germany. On the threshold of experimental psychology: Psychophysics. Ernst Weber ( 1795-1878). Two-point thresholds. Weber's law. Gustav Fechner (1801-1889). Fechner'sElements of Psychophysics. Wundt establishes a new psychology at Leipzig. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): Creating a new science. Wundt's conception of the new psychology. Studying immediate conscious experience. Studying higher mental processes. Inside Wundt's laboratory. Sensation and perception. Mental chronometry
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Discover how past events have shaped psychology as we know it today. Learn about the fascinating people who helped create and shape the field, and develop a deeper understanding of the many interconnections that exist among the different areas of psychology. Goodwin's book provides an account of the lives and contributions of psychology's pioneers, along with their original writings, of Watson, James, Titchener, Freud, and more., Discover how past events have shaped psychology as we know it today. Learn about the fascinating people who helped create and shape the field, and develop a deeper understanding of the many interconnections that exist among the different areas of psychology. Goodwin's book provides an account of the lives and contributions of psychology's pioneers, along with their original writings, of Watson, James, Titchener, Freud, and more.
LC Classification Number
BF105.G66 2004

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