A brief history of modern psychology

Benjamin, Ludy T. 1945- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1405132051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781405132053 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 140513206X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781405132060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-236) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Pre-scientific psychology -- A public psychology -- Phrenology -- Physiognomy -- Mesmerism -- Spiritualism -- Mental healing -- The road to mental philosophy -- British empiricism -- Scottish realism -- American mental philosophers -- Struggles for the new science -- 2. Physiology, psychophysics, and the science of mind -- Brain and nervous system -- Cortical localization -- Specificity in the nerves -- The speed of nerve conduction -- Sensory physiology -- Color vision -- Pitch perception -- Psychophysics -- Ernst Weber's research -- Fechner's psychophysics -- 3. Germany and the birth of a new science -- Wundt's Leipzig laboratory -- Wundt's psychology -- Wundt's research methods -- Wundt's VoÌlkerpsychologie -- Wundt's students -- Hermann Ebbinghaus and the study of memory -- Franz Brentano's act psychology -- Carl Stumpf and the psychology of tone -- Georg Elias MuÌller and memory -- Oswald KuÌlpe and thinking -- 4. Origins of scientific psychology in America -- William James as psychologist -- James's Principles -- James's student : Mary Whiton Calkins -- Philosophy and psychical phenomena -- G. Stanley Hall and the professionalization of psychology -- The child study movement -- Adolescence and Hall's genetic psychology -- Psychoanalysis, religion, aging -- James McKeen Cattell : psychology's ambassador -- Cattell's mental tests -- Cattell as editor of Science -- Getting the word out about a new science --