Synopses & Reviews
Goodwin presents psychologists with an innovative new book that offers a set of important readings along with a running annotation that addresses the meaning of the reading s content. This includes a look at how the content relates to the contemporary historical context and the significance of the material for psychology s history. Each chapter begins with basic biographical information about the writer and concludes with narrative that places the writings in their historical context and explains their significance. Brief explanations, elaborations, or narrative that aims to connect the different segments are integrated throughout the excerpts from that person s writing. Psychologists will gain an even stronger understanding of and appreciation for the subject.
Synopsis
This new first edition reader is designed to make it easier for students to locate, read and comprehend historical material. "
Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology" includes thirty-six chapters of substantial excerpts and papers from psychology's history and includes narrative from the author himself. C. James Goodwin's narrative is woven throughout the passages to give readers information about the original author, describe the importance of the work, put the selection into its historical context, and finally, to explain and elaborate upon some of the more difficult passages. This book could be used as a stand-alone text for a first-year graduate seminar in psychology, or as a supplement to a main text in the undergraduate history of psychology course.
Interested in this book of readings? Be sure to take a look at its companion, History of Modern Psychology, 3e at www.wiley.com/college/goodwin.
Table of Contents
Rationalist and Empiricist Epistemologies Chapter 1. René Descartes (1596-1650): Mind-Body Interactionism
Chapter 2. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): British Empiricism Firsthand
Nineteenth Century Studies of the Brain
Chapter 3. François Magendie (1783-1855): The Bell-Magendie Principle
Chapter 4. Paul Broca (1824-1880): The Case of "Tan"
The "New Psychology" Emerges
Chapter 5. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): A New Scientific Psychology
Chapter 6. Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909): On Memory
Comparative Psychology
Chapter 7. Willard S. Small (1870-1943): Inventing Maze Learning
Chapter 8. Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949): Cats in Puzzle Boxes
American Pioneers
Chapter 9. William James (1842-1910): On Consciousness and Emotion
Chapter 10. Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930): Experiments on Association
Structuralism and Functionalism
Chapter 11. E. B. Titchener (1867-1927): A Structural Psychology
Chapter 12. James Rowland Angell (1869-1949): A Functional Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Chapter 13. Kurt Koffka (1886-1941): Gestalt Psychology and Perception
Chapter 14. Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967): Problem Solving in Apes
Nature/Nurture
Chapter 15. Francis Galton (1822-1911): The Inheritance of Mental Ability
Chapter 16. Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957): The Kallikak Study
Origins of Behaviorism
Chapter 17. Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936): Conditioned Reflexes
Chapter 18. John Broadus Watson (1878-1958): A Behaviorist Manifesto
Evolution of Behaviorism
Chapter 19. Edward C. Tolman (1886-1959): Cognitive Maps
Chapter 20. B. F. Skinner (1904-1990): An Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Psychoanalysis
Chapter 21. Sigmund Freud (1887-1967): The Clark Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Chapter 22. Karen Horney (1885-1952): Conflict, Anxiety, and Neurosis
Clinical Psychology
Chapter 23. Lightner Witmer (1867-1956): The Psychological Clinic
Chapter 24. Mary Cover Jones (1896-1987): Behavior Therapy
Sex and Race
Chapter 25. Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939): Sex Differences in Aptitude
Chapter 26. Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005) and Mamie P. Clark (1917-1983): The Doll Studies
Industrial Psychology
Chapter 27. Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955): Psychology and Advertising
Chapter 28. Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916): Applying Psychology to Business
Mental Testing
Chapter 29. James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944): Mental Tests
Chapter 30. Alfred Binet (1857-1911): The Binet-Simon Tests of Intelligence
Personality & Social Psychology
Chapter 31. Gordon Allport (1897-1967): The Uniqueness of Personality
Chapter 32. Kurt Lewin (1890-1947): The Leadership Studies
Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 33. Frederick C. Bartlett (1886-1969): Constructive Memory
Chapter 34. John Jenkins (1901-1948) and Karl Dallenbach (1887-1971): Interference and Memory
Humanistic Psychology
Chapter 35. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970): A Hierarchy of Needs
Chapter 36. Carl Rogers (1902-1987): The Therapeutic Environment