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1 online resource (424 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contents of Volume 2; Preface; 1. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO A HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY; The Beginnings; Through The Middle Ages and Renaissance; Descartes: Giant of the Seventeenth Century; British Associationism; Our Immediate Predecessors; Wilhelm Wundt; Schools of Psychology; Pavlov, Thorndike, and Ebbinghaus; The Learning Theorists; Sensory and Perceptual Processes; Physiological and Comparative Psychology; The Recent Past; 2. CONDITIONING AND LEARNING; Setting the Methodological Stage; Russian Reflexology |
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American FunctionalismOperant (Instrumental) Conditioning and Selective Learning; Behaviorism; Methodological Background; Hull and Spence; Tolman; Guthrie; Skinner; Decline and Fall; A Force for Change; Conclusion; 3. HUMAN LEARNING AND MEMORY; Ebbinghaus; G.E. Müller and the Göttingen Laboratory; The Expansion of Experimental Methods; New Directions in Early Experimental Research; Functionalism; Functionalism in Research on Learning and Memory; The Influence of Conditioning Theory; Development of the Interference Theory of Forgetting; Gestalt Theory of Memory |
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Bartlett and the Constructive Theory of MemoryConclusion; 4. COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHOLOGY; Western Science as a Beginning for the Study of Infrahuman Behavior; Europe's Dark Ages and The Renaissance; Darwinian Biology and the Beginnings of Comparative Psychology; Comparative Psychology in the Twentieth Century; Other Early Contemporary Figures and Theories; Ethology; Sociobiology; Comparative Psychology, Ethology, and Sociobiology in Quest of Understanding; 5. SENSORY PROCESSES: VISION; Earliest Period; The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Nineteenth Century |
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The Twentieth CenturyConclusion; 6. TASTE AND OLFACTION; Taste; Olfaction; 7. A HISTORY OF PERCEPTION; Perception: Its Scientific Status and Role in Psychological Systems; Some Representative Topics; Conclusion; 8. A HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF THE CORTEX: CHANGES IN THE CONCEPT OF THE SENSORY PATHWAY; Introduction; The Concept of a Sensory Pathway; The Anatomical Basis for the Concept of a Sensory Pathway to the Cortex; Sensory and Association Areas Distinguished: Flechsig's Study of the Development of Myelin and Cambell's Studies of Architectonics; Evolution of Cortex |
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Ablation Studies from 1929-1942: Lashley and KluverElectrophysiological Studies of the Cortex; The Organization of the Thalamus and Cortex: 1949-1959; Recent Evidence on Sensory Pathways and Sensory Cortical Areas; Summary and Critique: The Traditional View of the Cortex in the Light of Current Evidence; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX |
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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schlesinger, K
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| ISBN |
9781317769163 |
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1317769163 |
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