This textbook presents the modern history of psychology through a lively and engaging survey of eminent thinkers in the field. Covering 1850 to the present, with a new chapter on the late twentieth century and the cognitive revolution, this new edition also features up-to-date research and improved pedagogy.
This textbook presents the modern history of psychology through a lively and engaging survey of eminent thinkers in the field. Covering 1850 to the present, with a new chapter on the late twentieth century and the cognitive revolution, this new edition also features up-to-date research and improved pedagogy.
David Hothersall is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Ohio State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of psychology at Ohio State since 1971 and at Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, Meredith, and York University as well. His aim is to show students that psychology's history is interesting, relevant, and at times even exciting. Hothersall has received a number of Distinguished Teaching Awards, including on two occasions Ohio State's university-wide Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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Preface 1. Approaching the history of psychology: recurrent questions in psychology 2. Scientific and philosophical foundations of psychology 3. Early investigations of the central nervous system and the beginnings of neuroscience 4. Wilhelm Wundt and the founding of psychology 5. Wundt's students in the United States: Edward Titchener and Hugo Münsterberg 6. German psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 7. Gestalt psychology in Germany and the United States 8. The evolutionary perspective in Britain: Charles Darwin and Francis Galton 9. Early Psychology in the United States: James McKeen Cattell, William James, Granville Stanley Hall, and Mary Whiton Calkins 10. Functionalism at the University of Chicago and Columbia University 11. Psychoanalysis and the development of clinical specialties 12. Historical uses and abuses of intelligence testing 13. The research of Ivan Pavlov and the behaviorism of John B. Watson 14. Three neo-behaviorist psychologists: Edward Tolman, Clark Hull, and B. F. Skinner 15. The cognitive revolution and beyond Epilogue Glossary References Name Index Subject index.
Preface 1. Approaching the history of psychology: recurrent questions in psychology 2. Scientific and philosophical foundations of psychology 3. Early investigations of the central nervous system and the beginnings of neuroscience 4. Wilhelm Wundt and the founding of psychology 5. Wundt's students in the United States: Edward Titchener and Hugo Münsterberg 6. German psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 7. Gestalt psychology in Germany and the United States 8. The evolutionary perspective in Britain: Charles Darwin and Francis Galton 9. Early Psychology in the United States: James McKeen Cattell, William James, Granville Stanley Hall, and Mary Whiton Calkins 10. Functionalism at the University of Chicago and Columbia University 11. Psychoanalysis and the development of clinical specialties 12. Historical uses and abuses of intelligence testing 13. The research of Ivan Pavlov and the behaviorism of John B. Watson 14. Three neo-behaviorist psychologists: Edward Tolman, Clark Hull, and B. F. Skinner 15. The cognitive revolution and beyond Epilogue Glossary References Name Index Subject index.
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