1st Edition

An Historical Introduction To Modern Psychology

By Murphy, Gardner Copyright 1928
492 Pages
by Routledge

492 Pages
by Routledge

492 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume XXII of thirty-eight in a collection on General Psychology. Originally published in 1928, this study looks at the developments since the nineteenth century in literary and philosophic psychology underwent profound changes, chiefly as a result of the progress of biology.

Part I The Pre-Experimental Period; 1. The Intellectual Background of Seventeenth-Century Psychology; 2. The Psychology of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 3. The Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century; 4. Some Intellectual Antecedents of Experimental Psychology; Part II From Weber’s Experiments to the Age of Wundt; 5. The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology; 6. British Psychology in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 7. The Theory of Evolution; 8. Psychiatry from Pinel and Mesmer to Charcot; 9. German Physiological Psychology before Wundt; ch0010 Psychology in the Age of Wundt; Part III Contemporary Psychology; 11. Early Studies of Memory; 12. William James; 13. Structural and Functional Types of Psychology; 14. The Thought Processes; 15. Experiments on the Acquisition of Skill; 16. Behaviourism; 17. Child Psychology; 18. Social Psychology and the Psychology of Religion; 19. Psychoanalysis; 20. Instinct; 21. The Measurement of Intelligence; 22. Personality; 23. Contemporary Physiological Psychology; 24. A Summary and an Interpretation; Part IV Supplement Contemporary German Psychology, HEINRICH KLUVER; 25. Contemporary German Psychology as a “Natural Science”; 26. Contemporary German Psychology as a “Cultural Science”;

Biography

Gardner Murphy