A History of Psychology Ideas and Context
by King, D. Brett; Viney, Wayne; Woody, William DouglasRent Textbook
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Summary
Author Biography
Wayne Viney is Emeritus Professor and Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology and an undergraduate course in the development of scientific thought. Dr. Viney served as the Head of the Psychology Department at Colorado State University from 1967 to
1973 and as Associate Dean of Natural Sciences and Director of the University Core Curriculum in Biology from 1973 to 1976. He received 17 teaching awards while working at Colorado State. He has served as President of Division 26 Society for the History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the history of psychology.
William Douglas Woody is Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches History and Systems of Psychology at the graduate level. He taught History and Systems of Psychology at the undergraduate level at Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire. In 2006, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology. Additionally, he has received numerous national, university, and college level teaching awards, and including being named Best Professor by the students at two of the three universities where he has taught.
Table of Contents
| Historical Studies: Some Issues | |
| Why Study History? | |
| Some Problems in Historiography | |
| The History of the History of Psychology | |
| Internal and External History | |
| Philosophical Issues | |
| Epistemology | |
| The Problem of Causality | |
| Free Will and Determinism | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Ancient Psychological Thought | |
| Early Chinese Psychologies | |
| Babylonia | |
| Egypt | |
| Other Ancient Far-Eastern Psychologies | |
| The Hebrews | |
| Persia | |
| Greece | |
| The Roman Period and the Middle Ages | |
| Roman Medicine | |
| Roman Philosophy | |
| The Fall of Rome | |
| The Early Christian Faith | |
| The Medieval Period | |
| The Renaissance | |
| Effect of the Plague | |
| Expanding Geographic Knowledge | |
| Influence of the Greek Classics | |
| Growth of Empirical Studies | |
| Quantification | |
| Changing Visions of the World | |
| Psychological Thought in the Renaissance | |
| Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism | |
| Empiricism | |
| Empiricism on the Continent | |
| Associationism and Utilitarianism | |
| Rationism | |
| Emphasis on a Priori Knowledge | |
| Theory of Active Mind | |
| Deduction versus Induction | |
| Rene Descartes | |
| Baruch Spinoza | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | |
| Immanuel Kant | |
| Johann Friedrich Herbart | |
| Thomas Reid and Common Sense Psychology | |
| Mechanization and Quantification | |
| Thomas Hobbes | |
| Rene Descartes Revisited | |
| Jan Swammerdam | |
| Neils Stensen | |
| Stephen Hales | |
| Robert Whytt | |
| Johann August Unzer | |
| Julien Offray De La Mettrie | |
| Pierre-Jean Georges Cabanis | |
| Mapping the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems | |
| Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform Evolutionary Theory | |
| Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology | |
| Naturalistic Approaches to Emotional Disorders | |
| Humanitarian Reform | |
| Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology | |
| Psychophysics | |
| Wilhelm Wundt | |
| Developments After the Founding | |
| Systematic Extension: Edward Bradford Titchener | |
| Franz Brentano and Act Psychology | |
| Carl Stumpf | |
| Georg Elias Maller | |
| Oswald Kalpe and the Warzburg School | |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | |
| Wundt's Contemporaries and Applied Psychology | |
| Functionalism | |
| Harvard University | |
| Functionalism and the University of Chicago | |
| Psychology at Columbia University | |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | |
| The Growth of Applied Psychology | |
| Influence of Functionalism: An Evaluation | |
| Behaviorism | |
| Antecedents of Behaviorism | |
| Formal Founding of American Behaviorism | |
| 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 | |
| Gestalt Psychology | |
| Max Wertheimer | |
| Wolfgang Kahler | |
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