Psychology : theoretical-historical perspectives

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Psychology : theoretical-historical perspectives

edited by Robert W. Rieber and Kurt D. Salzinger

American Psychological Association, c1998

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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This is the second edition of a 1980 publication, in which contributors explored theory and history by focusing on some of the central figures in the development of the discipline. Chapters focus on psychophysics (the oldest incarnation of experimental psychology) and on Gestalt, cognitive and evolutionary psychology. This text is considerably updated and expanded, covering such seminal influences as Fechner, G.E. Muller, Wundt, Galton, James, Darwin, Baldwin and Vygotsky; such topics as the Americanization of psychology and psychoanalysis, the relationship between politics and psychology in the United States and the contrasting development of the concept of the self in Western and Eastern psychology; and reprinting chapters originally contributed by B.F. Skinner and Jean Piaget. This book documents the development of a continually evolving field - one that had a profound influence on the thought and culture of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

  • Vicissitudes of Fechnerian Psychophysics in America
  • Neglect of G.E. Muller in the History of American Psychology
  • Why Study Wundtian Psychology?
  • Solomon Diamond, Francis Galton and American Psychology
  • William James on the Demise of Positivism and the Denial and Affirmation of the Self
  • The Americanization of Psychology Before William James
  • Politics and American Psychology
  • Diverse Relations Between Psychology and Evolutionary Thought
  • Gestalt Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology
  • The Experimental Analysis of Operant Behaviour - a History
  • The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Behaviourism
  • The Assimilation of Psychoanlaysis in America - From Popularization to Vulgarization
  • In Tribute to Piaget - a Look at His Scientific Impact in the United States - Genetic Epistemology and Developmental Psychology
  • Some Recent Research and its Link With a New Theory of Groupings and Conservations Based on Commutability
  • Thought and Things - James Mark Baldwin and the Biosocial Origins of Mind
  • the Historical and Contemporary Significance of Vygotsky's Sociohistorical Psychology
  • Sitzfleisch, the Zeitgeist and the Hindsightgeist.

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