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Informationen zum Autor Jaan Valsiner Klappentext Explores the development of ideas in psychology's past. In this book! selected ideas of key figures in the cognitive! comparative! and developmental sides of psychology are traced! and the social contexts of their ideas are given a collective analysis! focusing on the potential of these ideas for psychology. Zusammenfassung This book explores the development of ideas in psychology's past Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Roots of Cognitive Science: Karl Duncker; 1: Karl Duncker and Cognitive Science; 2: Life as the Problem: Karl Duncker’s Context; 3: Duncker’s Account of Productive Thinking: Exegesis and Application of a Problem-Solving Theory; 4: Duncker’s Analysis of Problem Solving as Microdevelopment 1, 2; II: Abstractive Generalization through Language: The Legacy of Karl Bühler; 5: The Pleasure of Thinking: A Glimpse into Karl Bühler’s Life; 6: Remembering Karl Bühler: Discovering Unanticipated Resemblances with My Distancing-Representational Model; 7: Bühler’s Legacy: Full Circle and Ahead; III: Thinking and Speaking: Development through Thinking, Acting, and Speaking; 8: Arnold Gesell and the Maturation Controversy; 9: Alexander F. Chamberlain: A Life’s Work; 10: The Fate of the Forgotten: Chamberlain’s Work Reconsidered; IV: The Dynamic Whole: Gestalt Ideas and Social Practices; 11: Tamara Dembo’s European Years; 12: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Tamara Dembo and Rehabilitation Psychology; 13: Tamara Dembo’s Socio-Emotional Relationships; V: Dissecting Methodology and Thinking of Development; 14: The Legacy of Adolf Meyer’s Comparative Approach: Worcester Rats and the Strange Birth of the Animal Model; 15: Zing-Yang Kuo: Personal Recollections and Intimations of Developmental Science 1 , 2; 16: Kuo’s Epigenetic Vision for Psychological Sciences: Dynamic Developmental Systems Theory
