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Wilhelm Wundt in history : the making of a scientific psychology / edited by Robert W. Rieber and David K. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- PATH in psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--History--20th century.
- Psychology.
- History.
- Psychology, Experimental--History--20th century.
- Psychology, Experimental.
- Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 1832-1920.
- Wundt, Wilhelm Max.
- Psychology--history.
- Psychology, Experimental--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychology--history.
- Psychology, Experimental--history.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [2001]
- Summary:
- Wilhelm Wundt is widely recognized as a founder of modern experimental psychology. One of his many contributions was to help establish the Leipzig Institute for Experimental Psychology - the first graduate program in the field - in 1879, the centennial celebration of which resulted in a number of studies including Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology. In an extensive revision of this important book, first published by Plenum in 1980, a distinguished roster of contributors reconsider this much heralded founding father' of modern psychology.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Wundt before Leipzig / Solomon Diamond 1
- A Question of Lifestyle 3
- Early Childhood and Family 3
- Boyhood and Early Youth 8
- Choice of a Career 12
- Student Years 14
- Postgraduate Training 18
- The Iodine Affair 19
- The Localization Problem 19
- Some Fresh Frustrations 21
- Controversy with Hermann Munk 24
- Assistant to Helmholtz 26
- The Beitrage 29
- The Introduction on Method 32
- Controversy with Ewald Hering 34
- The Swiftest Thought 35
- Wundt's "Fireside Conversations" 38
- Early Political Activity 39
- Lectures on Psychology 41
- Three Nonpsychological Books 44
- The Complication Pendulum 46
- Judgments on Haeckel and Helmholtz 48
- "Physiological Psychology" Arrives 50
- Research in Neurophysiology 51
- Hall, Wundt, and Bernstein 52
- Academic Mobility 56
- What the Reviewers Said 57
- The Inaugurations and Beyond 61
- Chapter 2 Wundt and the Temptations of Psychology / Kurt Danziger 69
- Does Wundt Matter? 69
- Traditions and Their Temptations 71
- The Mechanistic Temptation 75
- The Temptations of Intellectualism 80
- The Temptation of Individualism 85
- Postscript: Pitfalls of Wundt Scholarship 89
- Chapter 3 The Unknown Wundt: Drive, Apperception, and Volition / Kurt Danziger 95
- Wundt's Opposition to the Theories of Lotze and Bain 97
- From Impulse to Choice: The Development of Volitional Activity 101
- The Apperception Concept and the Experimental Context 109
- Some Early Reactions to Wundt's Theories 113
- Chapter 4 A Wundt Primer: The Operating Characteristics of Consciousness / Arthur L. Blumenthal 121
- Presentations of Wundt 121
- Wundt's "Actuality Principle"
- The Heart of Controversy 127
- The Principle of "Creative Synthesis" (Schopferische Synthese) 129
- The Influential Wundtian School of Psycholinguistics (Sprachpsychologie) 132
- The Emotion System 135
- The Volition System 138
- Final Days 142
- Chapter 5 Wundt and the Americans: From Flirtation to Abandonment / Robert W. Rieber 145
- The Americanization Process 147
- The Functionalist-Structuralist Debate 149
- Wundtian Influence and James Mark Baldwin 150
- Wundt and Darwinism in America 153
- Edward Wheeler Scripture: The Yale Laboratory and the New Psychology 155
- Chapter 6 Reaction-time Experiments in Wundt's Institute and Beyond / David K. Robinson 161
- The Heart of the Work of the Leipzig Institute in the 1880s 162
- Reaction-time Studies before the Leipzig Institute 163
- Reaction-time Studies in the Leipzig Institute 166
- Ludwig Lange's Approach: Muscular vs. Sensorial Reaction 175
- Social Organization of Research in the Leipzig Institute: The Set-Up for Experiments 179
- Leipzig Psychology Spreads in Europe, 1885-1895 181
- Munsterberg's Dissent 184
- Wundt's Allies in Germany: Kraepelin and Martius 189
- Kulpe's Rejection of the Subtraction Method 193
- Structuralism and Functionalism 196
- Wundt's Tridimensional Theory of Emotions 197
- Reaction Times after 1900 198
- Chapter 7 Laboratories for Experimental Psychology: Gottingen's Ascendancy over Leipzig in the 1890s / Edward J. Haupt 205
- Introduction: Did Wundt's Laboratory Lead the Experimental Movement in Psychology in the Early 1890s? 205
- "Gottingen ... Second Only to Leipzig": I Don't Think So! 208
- What Is a Laboratory? 209
- Krohn and Henri as Evaluators of Laboratories 211
- The Equipment of the Laboratories 214
- German Equipment Catalogs 218
- The Zimmermann Catalog 218
- The Diederichs Firm 219
- Spindler & Hoyer Catalogs 220
- Determining How the Apparatus Worked 221
- Conflicts between G. E. Muller and Wilhelm Wundt 222
- Wundt's Rejection of Muller's Memory Apparatus 222
- Muller and Wundt on the Proper Measurement of Reaction Time 229
- Calibrating the Hipp Chronoscope 233
- Munsterberg and RT Studies 236
- Edgell's Analysis of RT Studies 238
- The Accuracy of RT Measurement 240
- Evaluation of the Productivity of the Two Laboratories 242
- What Remains to Be Said 245
- Chapter 8 The Wundt Collection in Japan / Miki Takasuna 251
- A Brief History of the Wundt Collection 251
- "The Story of the Wundt Collection" (An Excerpt from Daifuku-cho) 253
- The Current Status of the Wundt Collection 256
- References, with Annotations 258
- Bibliography of Wilhelm Wundt's Writings, Compiled by Eleonore Wundt / Edited by David K. Robinson 261
- Writings of Wilhelm Wundt, by Year 263.
- Notes:
- "Writings of Wilhelm Wundt by year": pages 263-295.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 030646599X
- OCLC:
- 47018484
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