History of Modern Psychology, 5ed: A Global Perspective, An Indian Adaptation

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING PSYCHOLOGY’S HISTORY

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• Why Take This Course?
• Key Issues in Psychology’s History
• Close-Up: Edwin G. Boring (1886–1968)
• Historiography: Doing and Writing History

CHAPTER 2 THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• A Long Past
• René Descartes (1596–1650): The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy and Science
• The British Empiricist Argument and the Associationists
• Close-Up: Raising a Philosopher
• Rationalist Responses to Empiricism
• Philosophical Perspective of Psychology in Other Parts of the World
• In Perspective: Philosophical Foundations

CHAPTER 3 THE SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• Heroic Science in the Age of Enlightenment
• Functioning of the Nervous System
• Localization of Brain Function
• Close-Up: The Marketing of Phrenology
• Nervous System Structure  
• Scientific Approaches Outside the US
• In Perspective: The Nervous System and Behavior

CHAPTER 4 WUNDT AND GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• An Education in Germany
• On the Threshold of Experimental Psychology: Psychophysics
• Wundt Establishes a New Psychology at Leipzig
• Close-Up: An American in Leipzig
• The New Psychology Spreads
• Relevance of Wundt’s Contributions Outside the Western World
• In Perspective: A New Science

CHAPTER 5 DARWIN’S CENTURY: EVOLUTIONARY THINKING

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• The Species Problem
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and the Theory of Evolution
• The Origins of Comparative Psychology
• Close-Up: Douglas Spalding and the Experimental Study of Instinct
• Studying Individual Differences
• Global Acceptability of Darwin’s Principles and Their Impact on Psychological Thinking
• In Perspective: Darwin’s Century

CHAPTER 6 AMERICAN PIONEERS

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• Psychology in 19th-Century America
• The Modern University
• William James (1842–1910): The First of the “New” Psychologists in America
• G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924): Professionalizing the New Psychology
• Close-Up: Creating Maze Learning
• Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930): Challenging the Male Monopoly
• Other American Women Pioneers: Untold Lives
• Other Pioneers: Ladd and Baldwin
• In Perspective: The New Psychology at the Millennium

CHAPTER 7 CLASSICAL ORIENTATION OF STRUCTURALISM AND FUNCTIONALISM

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Titchener’s Psychology: Structuralism
• Close-Up: The Introspective Habit
• America’s Psychology: Functionalism
• The Desire for Application
• The Mental Testing Movement
• Close-Up: Leta Hollingworth: Advocating for Gifted Children and Debunking Myths about Women
• Applying Psychology to Business
• Global Industrial Psychologists
• Global Status of Applied Psychology
• In Perspective: How Structuralism and Functionalism have Impacted the Study of Psychology

CHAPTER 8 GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• The Origins and Early Development of Gestalt Psychology
• Close-Up: A Case of Espionage?
• Gestalt Psychology and Perception
• The Gestalt Approach to Cognition and Learning
• Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): Expanding the Gestalt Vision
• In Perspective: Impact of Gestalt Psychology

CHAPTER 9 SITUATING BEHAVIORISM IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

• Preview and Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Behaviorism’s Antecedents
• Pavlov’s Life and Work
• Close-Up: Misportraying Pavlov’s Apparatus: Its Implications for Collective Societies
• John B. Watson and the Founding of Behaviorism
• Post-Watsonian Behaviorism
• Edwin R. Guthrie (1886–1959): Contiguity, Contiguity