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Introduction to the book Pioneers of Psychology - Pioneers of Psychology - Fancher & Rutherford

Writing about history
Structure of this book
Pioneers in this book
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Writing about history

Historiography is the official term for the concept of writing about history, but it is

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Why does one study history of psychology? – Chapter 0

What began the study of the history of psychology?
How does one study the past?
What is the historiographical approach?

Studying history offers the opportunity to take a step outside the internal mechanisms of the discipline of psychology. This can help you to see how all the elements

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Foundational ideas from the Antiquity - Chapter 1

Who were the pre-Socratic philosophers?
Who was Socrates?
What was Plato’s philosophy?
Who was Aristotle?
Who are Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius?
Who are three Islamic pioneers?
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Plato (424-347 BC) came from a wealthy family in Athens and was

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Philosophy of the mind: what are the thoughts of Descartes, Locke and Leibniz? - Chapter 2

Who was Rene Descartes?
What are the rational qualities of the mind?
What is the difference between Locke and Leibniz?
Who was John Locke?
Who was Leibniz?
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René Descartes moved Paris in 1615, in the midst of an identity crisis. He did not think

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Physiologists of the mind: which important scientists examined the brain in the period between Gall and Penfield? - Chapter 3

Who is Franz Jozef Gall?
Who was Flourens?
What was Wernicke’s influence?
How did Penfield treat Epilepsy?
Who was Brenda Milner?
What are recent developments?
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Nowadays, we see the brain as the organ responsible for our intelligence and higher mental possibilities. However, it

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The sensing and perceptive spirit: which developments took place in this area in the period between Kant and the Gestalt psychologists? - Chapter 4

What is Kant's background?
Who was Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894)?
What did Fechner write about psychophysics?
What is Gestalt Psychology?
What are implications of Gestalt psychology?
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The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) became known because of what he called 'my dogmatic slumbers'. He was trained

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How did Wundt develop experimental psychology? - Chapter 5

What did Wundt's life look like?
What was the structuralism of Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-1927)?
Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)?
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The German Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) developed a "Thought-meter" to test the assumed assumption that, when two different stimuli reach our senses at the same moment

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The evolving mind: what psychological developments did Darwin bring? - Chapter 6

What did Darwin's life look like?
What were Darwin's geological discoveries?
What were Darwin's biological discoveries?
How did the theory of evolution come to be?
What did Darwin write about psychology?
What did Darwin write about the expression of emotions?
What was Darwin's influence on

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Measuring the mind: what are Galton's thoughts about individual differences? - Chapter 7

What did Galton's former life and career look like?
What was Darwin's influence on Galton?
What is the role of nature and nurture?
What was the eugenic society?
What are other contributions from Galton?
What is Galton’s influence?
Who are Burt and Jensen?

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American pioneers: what are the thoughts of James, Hall, Calkins and Thorndike? - Chapter 8

What did James' early life look like?
What is pragmatism?
Who was G. Stanley Hall?
Who was Mary Whitkon Calkins (1863-1930)?
Who was Edward Lee Thorndike?
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It became clear at the conference in Munich in 1896 that psychology was slowly becoming a respected

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Psychology as behavioural science: how is this area affected by Pavlov, Watson and Skinner? - Chapter 9

What did Pavlov's life look like?
Who was Watson?
Who was Skinner?
What is the influence of Skinner?
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) was interested in the congenital and reflexive saliva reactions in dogs, which he first called psychic secretions. It was about this saliva that

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Social psychology: how did this psychology develop in the period after Mesmer? - Chapter 10

What is animal magnetism?
What is artificial somnambulism?
What was the contribution of Liebeault and Bernheim?
Who was Jean-Martin Charcot?
What did Le Bon write about the masses?
What was Binet’s experiment?
Who was Floyd Henry Allport (1890-1978)?
What research did Solomon Eliot Asch

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The mind in conflict: what does Freud's psychoanalysis mean? - Chapter 11

How did psychoanalysis arise?

Joseph Breuer and Bertha Pappenheim came up with the "cathartic method" as treatment. In that method. Breuer hypnotized Breuer Pappenheim and asked her to go back to the first times she had experienced a specific physical sensation (such as her symptoms). Hypnotizing made it easier to reach forgotten memories (but only high emotion memories, associated with symptoms). By

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Personality psychology: what are the thoughts of Allport and Maslow? - Chapter 12

Who was Gordon W. Allport (1897-1967)?
What is the personality theory of Allport?
Which other researchers did Allport stimulate?
What idiographic approaches are there?
Who was Abraham Maslow?
Who were Maslow's Neo-Freudian mentors?
Who were the Gestalt mentors of Maslow?
Who were founding fathers of

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The developed spirit: how have Binet and Piaget contributed to the study of intelligence? - Chapter 13

What did the life and career of Binet look like?
What were the successors of the 1905 test?
What is the definition of intelligence?
What did Goddard write about weakness and giftedness?
Who was Jean Piaget (1896-1980)?
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During the late 1880s Binet studied

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What does cognitive psychology entail? - Chapter 14

How did artificial intelligence develop?
What did Charles Babbage do?
What was the turing machine?
What is the thought experiment of John Searle?
Who was George A. Miller (1920-2012)?
What did Ulric Neisser do for cognitive psychology?
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There are three issues at

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What does the applied psychology mean? - Chapter 15

What is the scientific management?
What are the Hawthorne studies?
Who was Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939)?
How did the APA come about?
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Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916) was known for his articles about how psychological knowledge could be applied in daily life. He felt that scientific psychology

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