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Showcases the fundamental historical principles that form the bedrock of psychology
A History of Psychology: Ideas & Context, 5/e, traces psychological thought from antiquity through early 21st century advances, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and development. This title provides in-depth coverage of intellectual trends, major systems of thought, and key developments in basic and applied psychology.
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Table of Contents
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
Brief Table of Contents
Part I: Historiographic and Philosophical Issues
Chapter 1: Critical Issues in Historical Studies
Chapter 2: Philosophical Issues
Part II: Early Psychological Thought
Chapter 3: Ancient Psychological Thought
Chapter 4: The Roman Period and the Middle Ages
Chapter 5: The Renaissance
Part III: Modern Intellectual Developments that Contributed to the Birth of Psychology
Chapter 6: Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism
Chapter 7: Rationalism
Chapter 8: Mechanization and Quantification
Chapter 9: Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform
Part IV: Psychology from the Formal Founding in 1879
Chapter 10: Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology
Chapter 11: Developments after the Founding
Chapter 12: Functionalism
Chapter 13: Behaviorism
Chapter 14: Other Behavioral Psychologies
Chapter 15: Gestalt Psychology
Chapter 16: Psychoanalysis
Chapter 17: Humanistic Psychologies
Chapter 18: The Rise of Contemporary Psychology
Full Table of Contents
Part I: Historiographic and Philosophical Issues
Chapter 1: Critical Issues in Historical Studies
Why Study History?
Some Problems in Historiography
The History of the History of Psychology
Chapter 2: Philosophical Issues
Epistemology
The Problem of Causality
Free Will and Determinism
The Mind—Body Problem
The Problem of Explanation
Part II: Early Psychological Thought
Chapter 3: Ancient Psychological Thought
Early Chinese Psychologies
Babylonia
Egypt
Other Ancient Eastern Psychologies
The Hebrews
Persia
Greece
Chapter 4: The Roman Period and the Middle Ages
Roman Medicine
Roman Philosophy
The Fall of Rome
The Early Christian Faith
The Medieval Period
Chapter 5: The Renaissance
The Black Death
A New Worldview: Expanding Geographic Knowledge
Influence of the Greek Classics
Diffusion of Authority
Growth of Empirical Studies
Quantification
Changing Visions of the World
Psychological Thought in the Renaissance
Part III: Modern Intellectual Developments that Contributed to the Birth of Psychology
Chapter 6: Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism
Empiricism
Empiricism on the Continent
Associationism and Utilitarianism
Contributions of Empiricism
Chapter 7: Rationalism
Emphasis on a Priori Knowledge
Theory of the Active Mind
Deduction versus Induction
René Descartes
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Immanuel Kant
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Thomas Reid and Commonsense Philosophy
Contributions of Rationalism
Chapter 8: Mechanization and Quantification
Thomas Hobbes
René Descartes Revisited
Jan Swammerdam
Niels Stensen
Stephen Hales
Robert Whytt
Johann August Unzer
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
Mapping the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
Chapter 9: Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform
Evolutionary Theory
Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology
Naturalistic Approaches to Emotional Disorders
Humanitarian Reform
Part IV: Psychology from the Formal Founding in 1879
Chapter 10: Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology
Psychophysics
Wilhelm Wundt
Chapter 11: Developments After the Founding
Systems
Edward Bradford Titchener
Margaret Floy Washburn: A Broader Psychology
Franz Brentano and Act Psychology
Carl Stumpf
Georg Elias Müller
Oswald Külpe and the Würzburg School
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Wundt’s Contemporaries and Applied Psychology
Chapter 12: Functionalism
William James and Harvard University
Hugo Münsterberg
G. Stanley Hall and Clark University
Functionalism and the University of Chicago
Psychology at Columbia University
Mary Whiton Calkins
The Growth of Applied Psychology
Influence of Functionalism: An Evaluation
Chapter 13: Behaviorism
Antecedents of Behaviorism
Formal Founding of American Behaviorism
Behaviorism and Applied Psychology
Chapter 14: Other Behavioral Psychologies
Importance of Learning
Importance of Precision and Clarity
Importance of Experimentation
Early Behavioristic Psychologies
Neobehaviorism
Further Contributions to Applied Psychology from Neobehaviorism
Chapter 15: Gestalt Psychology
Max Wertheimer
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Koffka
Intellectual Background of Gestalt Psychology
The Fundamentals of Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Perspectives on Scientific Method
Mind and Brain
The Influence of Gestalt Psychology
Kurt Lewin and Field Theory
Common Misunderstandings of Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology and Applied Psychology
The Continuing Relevance of Gestalt Psychology
Chapter 16: Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Freud’s System of Psychology
Neoanalytic Psychologies
Alfred Adler
Carl Gustav Jung
Karen Danielsen Horney
Other Developments
Chapter 17: Humanistic Psychologies
Intellectual Traditions
The Formal Emergence of Humanistic Psychologies
Overview of Third-Force Psychologies: Major Positions and Criticisms
Chapter 18: The Rise of Contemporary Psychology
The Systems of Psychology in Retrospect
Cognitive Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Biopsychology
Social Psychology
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Psychology and the Law
Diversity and Pluralism in Modern Psychology