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A History of Modern Psychology

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.09.2022

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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528

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25,2/20,2/2 cm

Gewicht

839 g

Auflage

6th edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-77926-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.09.2022

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

528

Maße (L/B/H)

25,2/20,2/2 cm

Gewicht

839 g

Auflage

6th edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-77926-1

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: A History of Modern Psychology
  • Preface xi
     
    Acknowledgments xv
     
    Chapter 1 Introducing Psychology's History 1
     
    Why Take This Course? 2
     
    Why Study History? 2
     
    Why Study Psychology's History? 4
     
    Key Issues in Psychology's History 6
     
    Presentism versus Historicism 7
     
    Internal versus External History 9
     
    Personalistic versus Naturalistic History 10
     
    Close-Up: Edwin G. Boring (1886-1968) 11
     
    This Book's Point of View 14
     
    Historiography: Doing and Writing History 14
     
    Sources of Historical Data 15
     
    From the Miles Papers: Miles Meets His Academic Grandfather 17
     
    Problems with the Writing of History 18
     
    Data Selection Problems 18
     
    Interpretation Problems 20
     
    Digital History 21
     
    Approaching Historical Truth 22
     
    Summary 23
     
    Chapter 2 The Philosophical Context 25
     
    A Long Past 26
     
    René Descartes (1596-1650): The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy and Science 26
     
    Descartes and the Rationalist Argument 28
     
    The Cartesian System 29
     
    Descartes on the Reflex and Mind-Body Interaction 30
     
    The British Empiricist Argument and the Associationists 33
     
    John Locke (1632-1704): The Origins of British Empiricism 33
     
    Locke on Human Understanding 33
     
    Locke on Education 35
     
    George Berkeley (1685-1753): Applying Empiricism to Vision and Attacking Materialism 36
     
    British Associationism 38
     
    David Hume (1711-1776): The Rules of Association 38
     
    David Hartley (1705-1757): A Physiological Associationism 40
     
    Close-Up: Raising a Philosopher 42
     
    John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): The Pinnacle of British Empiricism/Associationism 43
     
    Mill's Psychology 44
     
    Mill's Logic 45
     
    Alexander Bain (1818-1903): On the Verge of Psychological Science 46
     
    Rationalist Responses to British Empiricism/Associationism 48
     
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) 48
     
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 49
     
    In Perspective: Philosophical Foundations 50
     
    Summary 51
     
    Chapter 3 the Scientific Context 53
     
    Heroic Science in the Age of Enlightenment 54
     
    Functioning of the Nervous System 55
     
    Reflex Action 56
     
    The Bell-Magendie Law 58
     
    The Specific Energies of Nerves 59
     
    Helmholtz: The Physiologist's Physiologist 60
     
    Measuring the Speed of Neural Impulses 62
     
    Helmholtz on Vision and Audition 63
     
    Helmholtz and the Problem of Perception 64
     
    Localization of Brain Function 65
     
    The Phrenology of Gall and Spurzheim 65
     
    Close-Up: The Marketing of Phrenology 69
     
    Flourens and the Method of Ablation 72
     
    The Clinical Method 73
     
    The Remarkable Phineas Gage 73
     
    Broca and the Speech Center 74
     
    Mapping the Brain: Electrical Stimulation 76
     
    Nervous System Structure 77
     
    Neuron Theory 78
     
    Sir Charles Sherrington: The Synapse 79
     
    From the Miles Papers: Miles Visits Sherrington in Oxford 81
     
    In Perspective: The Nervous System and Behavior 81
     
    Summary 82
     
    Chapter 4 Wundt and German Psychology 84
     
    An Education in Germany 85
     
    On the Threshold of Experimental Psychology: Psychophysics 86
     
    Johann Herbart (1776-1841) 87
     
    Ernst Weber (1795-1878) 88
     
    Two-Point Thresholds 88
     
    Weber's Law 88
     
    Gustav Fechner (1801-1889) 89
     
    Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics 90
     
    Wundt Establishes a New Psychology at Leipzig 91
     
    Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): Creating a New