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Jun 1, 2020 · Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to intro students. The author wrote this book to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.
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- 5 he Reawakening of Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages
- 6 he Renaissance
- 7 he Emergence of Modern Science
- 8 Sensationalism and Positivism: he French Tradition
- 9 Mental Passivity: he British Tradition
- 10 Mental Activity: he German Tradition
- 12 Nineteenth-Century Bases of Psychology
- 13 he Founding of Modern Psychology
- 14 American Functionalism
- 15 he Gestalt Movement
- 16 Psychoanalysis
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- Approach and Coverage
- Intended Audience
- Reader Resources
he Papacy and Church Power he Crusades and Rediscovery of Eastern Traditions he Universities Scholasticism Chapter Summary
Setting the Stage: he Italian Energy he Challenge to Authority within the Church: he Reformation he Challenge to Authority within Science: he Copernican Revolution Psychology’s Enduring Questions Chapter Summary
Advances in Science he Learned Societies Advances in Philosophy Chapter Summary
Advances in Science Advances in Philosophy French Voluntarism: Maine de Biran French Positivism: Auguste Comte Chapter Summary
Advances in Science Advances in Philosophy Chapter Summary
Advances in Science Advances in Philosophy Chapter Summary
Advances in Physiology Psychophysics Evolution Chapter Summary
Psychology as a Natural Science Psychology as a Human Science Chapter Summary
Background Early American Psychology Functional Psychology Women in Early American Psychology Impact of Functional Psychology Chapter Summary
Background in Germany he Founding of Gestalt Psychology Basic Principles of Gestalt Psychology Implications of Gestalt Psychology Chapter Summary
Background he Founding of Psychoanalysis he Disciples Social Psychoanalysis Contemporary Impact Chapter Summary
As with the earlier versions of this project, I would like to thank those who have taken the time to ofer suggestions for improvement and clariication. I want to acknowledge the late Antos Rancurello, Ph.D., who, many years ago, introduced me to the scholarly study of psychology’s past. At around the same time, I was fortunate to ind a model of sch...
Psychology’s contemporary diversity, both as a vibrant research discipline and in its varied applications, compels one to ask how the ield came to be. Just as today’s marketplace of careers and ideas shows the inluence of psychology in multiple guises, so too does psychology’s past reveal the presence of psycholog-ical inquiry in the full gamut of ...
In his Outline of Psychology, Hermann Ebbinghaus (1908) famously wrote: “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history” (p. 1). he present authors believe that it is essential to begin at the beginning, in the long past, rather than with the short history that starts with the founding of modern psychology. he narrative of modernity coherentl...
he target audience is three-fold. he irst intended audience is undergraduate students interested in psychology, but whose background in history, philoso-phy, and philosophy of science is not presumed. he book deliberately tries to ill in the background by providing signiicant detail as well as suggested direc-tions for individual pursuit by student...
We are pleased to present your passport and entry point into the fascinating history of psychology. hroughout the book, we consider the enduring ques-tions within psychology. We frame the zeitgeist or “spirit of the times” of each period in the history of psychology through consideration of the time and place, politics and economics, religion and e...
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Within rational psychology Wolff discussed the soul’s substantiality, simplicity, immateriality, immortality, and the mind–body problem. By contrast, the aim of Wolff’s empirical psychology was to identify psychological principles with the aid of concrete experiences of what actually happens in the human soul.
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius, and St. Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known founders, such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt, and Watson, appeared on the scene ...
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But dramatic changes came during the 1800s with the help of the first two research psychologists: the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), who developed a psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, and the American psychologist William James (1842-1910), who founded a psychology laboratory at Harvard University.
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This book pursues the very first use of the term - psychology, which is traced back to 1520. The appearance of the term was not as a part of philosophy. Thus, the main hypothesis of this book is that psychology from the very beginning was stranger to philosophy.
