Developmental Psychology

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• ISBN: 978-0-393-28354-9
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• This book is dedicated to Joëlle, in loving memory of Seth, and again, for Graham and Emily
• Chapters in the book

  • 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

  
• Pioneers of Psychology has brought history to life by connecting psychology’s enduring themes and debates with the colorful figures who originated them
• The commitment to reconstructing psychology’s past through detailed explorations of individual lives in context is one of the features that sets Pioneers apart from other textbooks

  
• Most students are attracted to psychology because they want to be able to understand people better
• A biographical, person-based approach is a compelling way to relate psychology’s past and recent history
• Psychology is the study of mental life and behavior
• Pioneers textbook


  • Reconstructs psychology’s past through detailed explorations of individual lives
  • Biographical, person-based approach
  • Focuses on the history behind major current subdisciplines
• Students are attracted to psychology because they want to understand people better
• Major current subdisciplines of psychology

  • Abnormal
  • Social
  • Personality
  • Humanistic
  • Developmental
  • Applied
  • Clinical
• Modern social psychology has direct intellectual roots in the exploits of Mesmer and other early hypnotists in the late 1700s
• Modern cognitive psychology has an intellectual history dating back to the revolutionary system of Indo-Arabic numerals
• Historical knowledge creates a deeper understanding of psychology today
• Pioneers textbook


  • Attention to gender issues
  • Inclusion of female pioneers
  • Focus on barriers faced by women in psychology
• More than thirty female pioneers' contributions have been included in the expanded coverage of gender issues
• Pioneers is an outstanding value at about half the price of market-leading competitors
• The ebook version of Pioneers includes intuitive highlighting, note taking, and bookmarking features
• Chapter 1 is completely new and explores the ancient Greek philosophers
• New key pioneers featured in Chapter 1

  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Democritus
• Clinical psychology has become the largest specialty area among present-day psychologists
• New key pioneers in clinical psychology

  • Molly Harrower
  • David Shakow
  • Aaron Beck
  • Paul Meehl
• Pioneers has updated material in response to recent historical research
• Pioneers with expanded coverage

  • Adler
  • Jung
  • Wechsler
  • Vygotsky
  • Shannon
  • Miller
  • Chomsky
  • Marston
  • Scott
  • Mayo
  • Rogers
  • Rorschach
• Support Package for this edition includes a greatly expanded test bank with more than 1,300 items
• Support Package includes assignments connecting chapter content to online resources
• Each chapter is comprehensible as an independent entity
• Old ideas and attitudes continually recur in new forms throughout the history of psychological thought
• Introduction


  Discusses the value of studying history and outlines central historiographic issues