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Francher Raymond E

Pioneers of psychology - London W W Norton & Company Inc 1996 - 511p

Contents:
Introduction: Studying the history of psychology;
Foundational ideas from antiquity;
Pioneering philosophers of mind: Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz;
Physiologists of mind : brain scientists from Gall to Penfield;
The sensing and perceiving mind : from Kant through the Gestalt psychologists;
Wundt and the establishment of experimental psychology;
The evolving mind: Darwin and his psychological legacy;
Measuring the mind: Galton and individual differences;
American pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike;
Psychology as the science of behavior: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner;
Social influence and social psychology : from Mesmer to Milgram and beyond;
Mind in conflict : Freudian psychoanalysis and its successors;
Psychology gets "personality": Allport, Maslow and the broadening field;
The developing mind: Binet, Piaget, and the study of intelligence;
Minds, machines, and cognitive psychology;
Applying psychology: from the witness stand to the workplace;
The art and science of clinical psychology

ISBN: 9780393283549

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Psychology - Psychologists - History

Dewey Class. No.: 150.920000 / FRA