John G. Benjafield
1. Psychology and History
Studying the History of Psychology
The New History of Psychology
The New History of Science
Feminism and the Psychology of Women
Psychology as a Social Construction
Reconciling the "Old" and "New" Histories of Psychology
2. Touchstones: The
Origins of Psychological Thought
Touchstones
Pythagoras (570-495 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
Lao-tzu (sixth century BC)
Aristotle (384-323 BC)
Averroes (1126-98) and the Re-introduction of Aristotle into European Thought
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and the Medieval View of
the Universe
3. Touchstones: From Descartes to Darwin
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The British Empiricists: John Locke (1602-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776)
James Mill (1773-1836) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Mary
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
4. The Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Psychology
J.F. Herbart (1776-1841)
G.T. Fechner (1801-1887)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1884)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903)
5. Wundt and His Contemporaries
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)
The Würzburg School
6. William James
The Principles of Psychology
7. Freud and Jung
The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Karen
Horney (1885-1952) and the Psychology of Women
C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
8. Structure or Function?
Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)
Functionalism
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Robert S. Woodworth (1869-1962)
Intelligence Testing
Psychology in Business
Comparative
Psychology
9. Behaviourism
Ivan P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927)
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958)
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
10. Gestalt Psychology and the Social Field
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
Wolfgang Köhler
(1887-1967)
Kurt Koffka (1886-1941)
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) and the Emergence of Social Psychology
Fritz Heider (1896-1988)
Leon Festinger (1919-1989)
Solomon Asch (1907-1996)
Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965)
11. Research Methods
Philosophy of
Science
Experimental Methods
R.A. Fisher (1890-1962)
Correlational Methods
Charles Spearman (1863-1945)
Cyril Burt (1883-1971)
Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955)
Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001) and "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology"
Qualitative Research
Methods
12. Theories of Learning
Ernest R. Hilgard (1904- 2001)
E.R. Guthrie (1886-1959)
Clark L. Hull (1884-1952)
Kenneth W. Spence (1907-1967)
Charles E. Osgood (1916-1991)
E.C. Tolman (1886-1959)
The Verbal-Learning Tradition
D.O. Hebb (1904-1985)
Albert
Bandura (1925-)
13. The Developmental Point of View
G. Stanley Hall (1884-1924)
James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934)
Heinz Werner (1890-1964)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Bärbel Inhelder (1913-97)
L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Erik H. Erikson (1902-94)
Eleanor J. Gibson
(1910-2002)
14. Humanistic Psychology
Existentialism
The Emergence of Humanistic Psychology
Charlotte Malachowski Buhler (1893-1974)
Rollo May (1909-1994)
Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987)
What Happened to Humanistic Psychology?
George A.
Kelly (1905-1967)
15. Cognitive Psychology
The Concept of "Information"
Noam Chomsky (1928- )
George A. Miller (1920- )
Jerome S. Bruner (1915- )
Sir Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969)
Ulric Neisser (1928-2012)
Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
16. The Future of
Psychology
Does Psychology Have Paradigms?
Why Have So Many Psychologists Found the Paradigm Concept Congenial?
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and the Language of Psychology
Psychology, Modernism, and Postmodernism
The Future of the History of
Psychology
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Student Study Guide:
For each chapter:
Chapter summary
Learning objectives
15 multiple choice questions
10 true-or-false questions
5 short answer questions
3-5 suggestions for further reading
3 suggested essay topics
Answer key with page
references
PowerPoint slides:
For each chapter:
20-35 lecture outline slides
Test Bank:
For each chapter:
6 essay questions
10 matching questions
15 true-or-false questions
35 multiple choice questions
Answer key with page references
E-Book
(ISBN 9780199007936)
John G. Benjafield is professor emeritus at Brock University, where he taught cognition and the history of psychology for over 30 years. He is currently a Fellow of both the Canadian Psychology Association and the American Psychological Society and has written extensively, including the first
three editions of OUP's Cognition.
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