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Klappentext 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.Goodwin's 5th Edition focuses on the reduction of biographical information with an emphasis on more substantial information including ideas and concepts and on ideas/research contributions. Zusammenfassung 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.Goodwin's 5th Edition focuses on the reduction of biographical information with an emphasis on more substantial information including ideas and concepts and on ideas/research contributions. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING PSYCHOLOGY'S HISTORYPreview and Chapter ObjectivesWhy Take This Course?Why Study History?Why Study Psychology's History?Key Issues in Psychology's HistoryPresentism versus HistoricismInternal versus External HistoryPersonalistic versus Naturalistic HistoryClose-Up: Edwin G. Boring (1886-1968)This Book's Point of ViewHistoriography: Doing and Writing HistorySources of Historical DataProblems with the Writing of HistoryData Selection ProblemsInterpretation ProblemsApproaching Historical TruthConclusionSummaryStudy QuestionsCHAPTER 2 THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXTPreview and Chapter ObjectivesA Long PastRené Descartes (1596-1650): The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy and ScienceDescartes and the Rationalist ArgumentThe Cartesian SystemDescartes on the Reflex and Mind-Body InteractionThe British Empiricist Argument and the AssociationistsJohn Locke (1632-1704): The Origins of British EmpiricismLocke on Human UnderstandingLocke on EducationGeorge Berkeley (1685-1753): Empiricism Applied to VisionBritish AssociationismDavid Hume (1711-1776): The Rules of AssociationDavid Hartley (1705-1757): A Physiological AssociationismClose-Up: Raising a PhilosopherJohn Stuart Mill (1806-1873): On the Verge of Psychological ScienceMill's PsychologyMill's LogicRationalist Responses to EmpiricismGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)Philosophical Perspective of Psychology in Other Parts of the WorldIn Perspective: Philosophical FoundationsSummaryStudy QuestionsCHAPTER 3 THE SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTPreview and Chapter ObjectivesHeroic Science in the Age of EnlightenmentFunctioning of the Nervous SystemReflex ActionThe Bell-Magendie LawThe Specific Energies of NervesHelmholtz: The Physiologist's PhysiologistMeasuring the Speed of Neural ImpulsesHelmholtz on Vision and AuditionHelmholtz and the Problem of PerceptionLocalization of Brain FunctionThe Phrenology of Gall and SpurzheimClose-Up: The Marketing of PhrenologyFlourens and the Method of AblationThe Clinical MethodThe Remarkable Phineas GageBroca and the Speech CenterMapping the Brain: Electrical StimulationNervous System StructureNeuron TheorySir Charles Sherrington: The SynapseScientific Approaches Outside the USIn Perspective: The Nervous System and BehaviorSummaryStudy QuestionsCHAPTER 4 WUNDT AND GERMAN PSYCHOLOGYPreview and Chapter ObjectivesAn Education in GermanyOn the Threshold of Experimental Psychology: PsychophysicsJohann Herbart (1776-1841)Ernst Weber (1795-1878)Two-Point ThresholdsWeber's LawGustav Fechner (1801-1889)Fechner's Elements of PsychophysicsWundt Establishes a New Psychology at LeipzigWilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): Creating a New ScienceWundt's Conception of the New PsychologyStudying Immediate Conscious ExperienceStudying Higher Mental ProcessesInside Wundt's LaboratorySensation and PerceptionMental ChronometryClose-Up: An American in LeipzigRewriting History: The...
