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Author Lowry, Richard

Title The Evolution of Psychological Theory : a Critical History of Concepts and Presuppositions
Edition 2nd ed
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 1982

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Content; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The New Beginnings: 1650-1800; 1. The Seventeenth Century; Rene Descartes; Thomas Hobbes; Descartes, Hobbes, and the Mechanical Conception Of Nature ; The Newtonian Revolution; John Locke; Notes; For Further Reading; 2. Mental Mechanism; George Berkeley; David Hume; David Hartley; James Mill; Notes; For Further Reading ; 3. Physiological Mechanism; The Sources Of Physiological Mechanism; Julien Offray De La Mettrie; David Hartley; Notes; For Further Reading ; 4. The New Image of Human Nature
Men And AnimalsThe Importance Of Experience; The Great Simplification; Notes ; For Further Reading ; Part II: The Nineteenth Century; 5. The New German Mechanism; Mental Mechanism; Physiological Mechanism; The Theory Of Punctiform Sensations; Notes; For Further Reading ; 6. Psychophysics andthe New Psychology -- Fechner And Psychophysics; Wundt And The New Psychology -- Notes; For Further Reading; 7. The Impact of Darwin; Organic Evolution; The Broader Implications; Notes; For Further Reading; 8. William James; Habit and The Mechanics Of The Nervous System
Reflexive Emotions And Ideo-Motor ActionsConsciousness, Attention, And Will; Our Accounts With Reality; The Remoter Schemes And Hopes; Notes; For Further Reading; Part III: The Threshold of the Present; 9. Psychoanalysis I: Sources; Freud's 'Tyrant'; ""Project For A Scientific Psychology''; The Physicalistic Bases of Psychoanalytic Theory; The Neuroses; Notes; For Further Reading; 10. Psychoanalysis II: The GeneralTheory; The Psychical Apparatus; Constancy and the Pleasure Principle; The Dream-Work; Id, Ego, and Superego; Instinct Theory and Its Vicissitudes; Concluding Remarks; Notes
For Further Reading11. Gestalt Theory:The New Physicalism; Gestaltpsychologie: Founding and First Principles; Gestalten: Perceptual, Physiological, And Physical; The Further Reaches; The New Physicalim; Notes; For Further Reading; 12. Behaviorism I: The Advent of the Behaviorists ; Behaviorism and the Reflex Model of Behavior; John B. Watson and the Birth of Behaviorism; The Advent of the Behaviorists; Notes; For Further Reading; 13. Behaviorism II: The Full Flowering; Reflexes and ""Innate Behavior Tendencies"": Revision of the Reflex Concept; Response-Contingent Reinforcement
Learning and UnlearningSubsidiary Conceptions; B.F. Skinner and the Heart of Behaviorism; Notes; For Further Reading; 14. Epilogue: Ideals andOver-Beliefs; Theoretical Juggernauts; The Great Golden Truth Syndrome; Striking The Balance; Index
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Subject Psychology -- Philosophy.
Psychology -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Shapiro, Deane H., Jr
Walsh, Roger N
ISBN 9781351483216
1351483218