C. James Goodwin
A History of Modern Psychology
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The enhanced 5th Edition of Goodwin′s series, A History of Modern Psychology, explores the modern history of psychology including the fundamental bases of psychology and psychology′s advancements in the 20th century.
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The enhanced 5th Edition of Goodwin′s series, A History of Modern Psychology, explores the modern history of psychology including the fundamental bases of psychology and psychology′s advancements in the 20th century.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: WILEY
- Revised
- Seitenzahl: 512
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 189mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 700g
- ISBN-13: 9781118833759
- ISBN-10: 1118833759
- Artikelnr.: 41217130
- Verlag: WILEY
- Revised
- Seitenzahl: 512
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 189mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 700g
- ISBN-13: 9781118833759
- ISBN-10: 1118833759
- Artikelnr.: 41217130
C. James Goodwin is an emeritus professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he taught for 30 years before taking an early retirement. He is currently residing in the mountains of North Carolina and is Professor of Psychology at Western Carolina University. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master's and PhD in experimental psychology from Florida State University, specializing in memory and cognition. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 2 (teaching) and 26 (history). His research interests on the empirical side are in the area of cognitive mapping, wayfinding, and spatial cognition, but his prime interest is in the early history of experimental psychology in the United States. He is the author of two undergraduate textbooks, one in research methods (Research in Psychology: Methods and Design) and one in the history of psychology (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
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
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
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