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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Psychology Revivals |
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Psychology revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 The Evolution of Experimental Psychology; 1 Origins; 1 'Before' psychology; 2 Philosophical developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 3 Eighteenth-and nineteenth-century philosophers and the idea of measurement in psychology; 4 The progress of nerve physiology in the nineteenth century; 5 The study of sensations; 6 Personal equation and reaction times; 2 The establishment of experimental psychology; Germany; 1 Fechner and psychophysics |
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2 Helmholtz and the psychophysiology of sensation3 Wundt and the establishment of experimental psychology; 4 Content psychology and act psychology; 5 Ebbinghaus (1850-1909); 6 The Würzburg School; 7 From act psychology to the 'Gestaltqualitäten'; 8 The Gestalt psychologists; England; 1 The birth of comparative psychology: Charles Darwin (1809-1882); 2 Psychological heredity and Galton's work; 3 Statistics and psychology; 4 The difficult establishment of psychology within the universities; France; 1 The philosophical psychology of the nineteenth century; 2 Charcot: hypnosis and hysteria |
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3 Ribot and the foundation of scientific psychology4 Pierre Janet (1859-1947); 5 Georges Dumas (1866-1946); 6 The creation of experimental psychology: Alfred Binet; 7 Advances in experimental psychology; America; 1 William James (1842-1910); 2 Dewey and functionalism; 3 The champion of experimental psychology: Stanley Hall (1844-1924); 4 The other founders; 5 Structuralism v. functionalism; 6 The rise of animal psychology; Russia; 3 The behaviourist revolution; 1 Origins; 2 Watson (1878-1958); 3 Behaviourism and physiology; 4 Behaviourism and learning; 5 The lineage of behaviourism |
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6 Operationism4 Towards the unification of psychology through the diversity of problems; 1 The influence of 'Gestalt' and Lewin's work; 2 Freud and his influence on experimental psychology; 3 Developments of the last twenty years; 4 Convergencies; 5 ... and tensions; Chapter 2 The Experimental Method; 1 The nature of the experimental method; 2 Conduct as a relationship; 3 S-P-R type relations; 1 Observation; 1 The stages in experimental research; 2 Observation and experiment; 3 The circumstances of observation; 4 Difficulties of observation; 5 Recording of observations |
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6 The presence of the observer7 The personality of the observer; 8 Self-observation; 2 The establishment of hypotheses; 1 Inductive hypotheses; 2 Deductive hypotheses; 3 The features of a good hypothesis; 3 Experimentation; 1 Independent and dependent variables; 2 Provoked and invoked experiments; 3 Experiments and the laboratory; 4 Experiment and equipment; 5 Isolation and control of independent variables; 6 Situation variables; 7 Forming comparable groups; 8 Personality variations; 9 Variations in responses; 10 Experimental designs; 11 Experimental work in practice; 12 Methodological errors |
| Summary |
First published in English 1968, in this volume Paul Fraisse begins with history, looking at the evolution of experimental psychology, starting with its origins. He then moves on to the establishment of experimental psychology around the world. In the second chapter he discusses the experimental method. In the third chapter Jean Piaget tackles the questions of explanation and parallelism and their problems within experimental psychology. The final chapter by Maurice Reuchlin goes on to discuss measurement in psychology looking at various scales with their experimental conditions and numeric |
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4 The analysis of results and their conclusions |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychology, Experimental.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Psychology, Experimental
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fraisse, Paul
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Reuchlin, Maurice
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| ISBN |
9781317630586 |
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1317630580 |
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