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History of Psychology : Ideas and Context by Wayne Viney, D. Brett King and William Douglas Woody (2007, Hardcover)
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PublisherAllyn & Bacon, Incorporated
ISBN-100205512135
ISBN-139780205512133
eBay Product ID (ePID)59917224
Product Key Features
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHistory of Psychology : Ideas and Context
Publication Year2007
SubjectGeneral, History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPsychology
AuthorWayne Viney, D. Brett King, William Douglas Woody
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight33.2 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number4
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2007-038011
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal150.9
Table Of ContentAll Chapters conclude with " Review Questions " and " Glossary ." 1. Historical Studies: Some Issues. Why Study History?Some Problems in Historiography.The History of the History of Psychology.Internal and External History. 2. Philosophical Issues. Epistemology.The Problem of Causality.Free Will and Determinism.The Mind-Body Problem. 3. Ancient Psychological Thought. Early Chinese Psychologies.Babylonia.Egypt.Other Ancient Far-Eastern Psychologies.The Hebrews.Persia.Greece. 4. The Roman Period and the Middle Ages. Roman Medicine.Roman Philosophy.The Fall of Rome.The Early Christian Faith.The Medieval Period. 5. The Renaissance. Effect of the Plague.Expanding Geographic Knowledge.Influence of the Greek Classics.Growth of Empirical Studies.Quantification.Changing Visions of the World.Psychological Thought in the Renaissance. 6. Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism. Empiricism.Empiricism on the Continent.Associationism and Utilitarianism. 7. Rationism. Emphasis on a Priori Knowledge.Theory of Active Mind.Deduction versus Induction.Renè Descartes.Baruch Spinoza.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.Immanuel Kant.Johann Friedrich Herbart.Thomas Reid and Common Sense Psychology. 8. Mechanization and Quantification. Thomas Hobbes.Renè Descartes Revisited.Jan Swammerdam.Neils Stensen.Stephen Hales.Robert Whytt.Johann August Unzer.Julien Offray De La Mettrie.Pierre-Jean Georges Cabanis.Mapping the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. 9. Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform Evolutionary Theory.Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology.Naturalistic Approaches to Emotional Disorders.Humanitarian Reform 10. Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology. Psychophysics.Wilhelm Wundt. 11. Developments After the Founding. Systematic Extension: Edward Bradford Titchener.Franz Brentano and Act Psychology.Carl Stumpf.Georg Elias Müller.Oswald Külpe and the Würzburg School.Hermann Ebbinghaus.Wundt's Contemporaries and Applied Psychology. 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. 13. Behaviorism. Antecedents of Behaviorism.Formal Founding of American Behaviorism. 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. 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.Some Common Misunderstandings of Gestalt Psychology.Gestalt Psychology and Applied PsychologyThe Continuing Relevance of Gestalt Psychology. 16. Psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud.Freud's System of Psychology.Post-Fruendian Analytic Psychologies.Alfred AdlerCarl Gustav Jung.Karen Danielsen Horney.Other Developments. 17. Humanistic Psychologies. Intellectual Traditions.The Formal Emergence of Humanistic Psychologies.Overview of Third-Force Psychologies: Major Positions and Criticisms. Epilogue: Late Twentieth Century Developments. The Systems of Psychology in Retrospect.Cognitive Psychology.Diversity and Pluralism in Modern Psychology.Review Question.Glossary. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
SynopsisA History of Psychology: Ideas and Context, Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive history of psychology tracing psychological thought from antiquity through early twenty-first century developments. The opening chapters present the reader with a dynamic framework for exploring psychology in the context of historiography and philosophical issues. The text provides in-depth coverage to the intellectual trends that preceded the formal founding of psychology in the late 1870s, coupled with an analysis of the major systems of thought and the key developments in the history of basic and applied psychology. The final chapter focuses on major trends in psychology from the latter half of the twentieth century to the early twentieth-first century., A history of psychology tracing psychological thought from antiquity through early 21st century developments. It provides coverage to the intellectual trends that preceded the founding of psychology in the late 1870s, with an analysis of the major systems of thought and key developments in the history of basic and applied psychology.
LC Classification NumberBF38.V56 2008
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