A History of Psychology explores the fascinating story of psychology as a discipline while also discussing how thinkers and eras are linked to one another. Placing historical events within philosophical, social, and cultural contexts, this text invites students to develop a full understanding of how the field of psychology developed and is practiced today.
1. Psychology and History ; Studying the History of Psychology ; The New History of Psychology ; The New History of Science ; Feminism and the Psychology of Women ; Psychology as a Social Construction ; Reconciling the "Old" and "New" Histories of Psychology ; 2. Touchstones: The Origins of Psychological Thought ; Touchstones ; Pythagoras (570-495 BC) ; Plato (427-347 BC) ; Lao-tzu (sixth century BC) ; Aristotle (384-323 BC) ; Averroes (1126-98) and the Re-introduction of Aristotle into European Thought ; St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and the Medieval View of the Universe ; 3. Touchstones: From Descartes to Darwin ; Rene Descartes (1596-1650) ; Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ; The British Empiricists: John Locke (1602-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776) ; James Mill (1773-1836) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ; Charles Darwin (1809-1882) ; 4. The Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Psychology ; J.F. Herbart (1776-1841) ; G.T. Fechner (1801-1887) ; Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1884) ; Francis Galton (1822-1911) ; Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) ; 5. Wundt and His Contemporaries ; Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) ; Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) ; The Wurzburg School ; 6. William James ; The Principles of Psychology ; 7. Freud and Jung ; The Unconscious ; Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) ; Anna Freud (1895-1982) ; Karen Horney (1885-1952) and the Psychology of Women ; C.G. Jung (1875-1961) ; 8. Structure or Function? ; Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927) ; Functionalism ; John Dewey (1859-1952) ; Robert S. Woodworth (1869-1962) ; Intelligence Testing ; Psychology in Business ; Comparative Psychology ; 9. Behaviourism ; Ivan P. Pavlov (1849-1936) ; Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927) ; John B. Watson (1878-1958) ; Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958) ; B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) ; 10. Gestalt Psychology and the Social Field ; Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) ; Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967) ; Kurt Koffka (1886-1941) ; Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) and the Emergence of Social Psychology ; Fritz Heider (1896-1988) ; Leon Festinger (1919-1989) ; Solomon Asch (1907-1996) ; Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) ; Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) ; 11. Research Methods ; Philosophy of Science ; Experimental Methods ; R.A. Fisher (1890-1962) ; Correlational Methods ; Charles Spearman (1863-1945) ; Cyril Burt (1883-1971) ; Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955) ; Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001) and "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology" ; Qualitative Research Methods ; 12. Theories of Learning ; Ernest R. Hilgard (1904- 2001) ; E.R. Guthrie (1886-1959) ; Clark L. Hull (1884-1952) ; Kenneth W. Spence (1907-1967) ; Charles E. Osgood (1916-1991) ; E.C. Tolman (1886-1959) ; The Verbal-Learning Tradition ; D.O. Hebb (1904-1985) ; Albert Bandura (1925-) ; 13. The Developmental Point of View ; G. Stanley Hall (1884-1924) ; James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934) ; Heinz Werner (1890-1964) ; Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Barbel Inhelder (1913-97) ; L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) ; Erik H. Erikson (1902-94) ; Eleanor J. Gibson (1910-2002) ; 14. Humanistic Psychology ; Existentialism ; The Emergence of Humanistic Psychology ; Charlotte Malachowski Buhler (1893-1974) ; Rollo May (1909-1994) ; Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970) ; Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987) ; What Happened to Humanistic Psychology? ; George A. Kelly (1905-1967) ; 15. Cognitive Psychology ; The Concept of "Information" ; Noam Chomsky (1928- ) ; George A. Miller (1920- ) ; Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ) ; Sir Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969) ; Ulric Neisser (1928-2012) ; Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) ; 16. The Future of Psychology ; Does Psychology Have Paradigms? ; Why Have So Many Psychologists Found the Paradigm Concept Congenial? ; Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and the Language of Psychology ; Psychology, Modernism, and Postmodernism ; The Future of the History of Psychology ; Bibliography ; Glossary ; Index
