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Authors: David Hothersall
ISBN-13: 9780072849653, ISBN-10: 0072849657
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: 4th Edition
Employing a biographical approach, this text details the important scientific accomplishments of psychology through the lives of the men and women who pioneered the seminal theories driving the discipline. The successes and failures of these distinguished psychologists provide a thorough and complete history of the field and show students its relevance to contemporary psychology.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Psychology and the AncientsChapter 2 Philosophical and Scientific Antecedents of PsychologyChapter 3 Early Studies of the Central Nervous SystemChapter 4 Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of PsychologyChapter 5 Edward Titchener and Hugo MunsterbergChapter 6 German Psychologists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesChapter 7 Gestalt Psychology in Germany and the United StatesChapter 8 The History of Clinical Psychology and the Development of PsychoanalysisChapter 9 Darwin, Galton, Cattell, James, and HallChapter 10 Functionalism at the University of Chicago and Columbia UniversityChapter 11 Historical Uses and Abuses of Intelligence TestingChapter 12 The Research of Ivan Pavlov and the Behaviorism of John B. WatsonEpilogue