A history of modern psychology / Duane O. Schultz and Sydney Ellen Schultz.
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TextPublisher: United States of America ; Harcourt Brace & Company, c1996Edition: Sixth editionDescription: xvi, 511 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780155025608 [hardbound]Subject(s): Modern Psychology| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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College Annex Library Subject Reference | 150.920 Sch38 1996 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000003476 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Chapter 1 The study of the history of psychology — Chapter 2 Philosophical influences on psychology — Chapter 3 Physiological influences on psychology — Chapter 4 The new psychology — Chapter 5 Structuralism — Chapter 6 Functionalism: antecedent influences — Chapter 7 Functionalism: development and founding — Chapter 8 Functionalism's legacy: applied psychology — Chapter 9 Behaviorism: antecedent influences — Chapter 10 Behaviorism: the beginnings — Chapter 11 Behaviorism: after the founding — Chapter 12 Gestalt psychology — Chapter 13 Psychoanalysis: the beginnings — Chapter 14 Psychoanalysis: dissenters and descendants — Chapter 15 Humanistic psychology and cognitive psychology — Chapter 16 Gender anf race in the history of psychology.
"The focus of this book is the history of modern psychology, that period beginning in the late 19th century when psychology became a separate, independent discipline.
Although we do not ignore earlier philosophical thought, we concentrate on that which relates directly to the establishment of psychology as a new and distinct field of study. We are presenting a history of modern psychology, not of psychology and all the philosophical work that preceded it.
We recount the history of psychology in terms of its great ideas and schools of thought. Since the formal beginning of the field in 1879, psychology has been defined in a variety of ways as new ideas have captured the loyalty of adherents and have come, for a time, to dominate the field. Our interest, then, is in the developing sequence of ideas that has defined psychology's subject matter, methods, and goals.
Each of the schools of thought is discussed as a movement growing out of its historical context and not as an independent or isolated entity. Contextual forces include not only the intellectual spirit of the times (the Zeitgeist) but also social, political, and economic factors." —Preface
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