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Readings in the history of psychology / Wayne Dennis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennis, Wayne, 1905-1976, author.
- Series:
- Century psychology series.
- Century psychology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--History.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 587 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1948]
- Summary:
- A fascinating collection of writing by some of the finest minds the world has ever known. A must read for anybody with an interest in the history of psychology, with writings by the Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Von Helmholtz, Thorndike and much more.
- Contents:
- On memory and recollection / Aristotle
- On dreams / Aristotle
- Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanics and local motion / Galileo
- The passions of the soul / René Descartes
- Humane nature / Thomas Hobbes
- The discovery of the blind spot / Edmé Marriotte
- A new theory of light and colors / Isaac Newton
- An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke
- An essay toward a new theorty of vision / George Berkeley
- Observations on man, his frame, his duty and his expectations / David Hartley
- Animal magnetism / Friedrich Anton Mesmer
- Observations on vision / Thomas Young
- Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colous: with observations / John Dalton
- On the theory of light and colours / Thomas Young
- Idea of a new anatomy of the brain / Charles Bell
- The secondary laws of learning / Thomas Brown
- Experimental researches on the properties and functions of the nervous system in the vertebrate animal / Pierre Flourens
- Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind / James Mill
- Concerning touch / Ernst Heinrich Weber
- The specific energies of nerves / Johannes Mueller
- Psychology and ethology / John Stuart Mill
- The power of the mind over the body / James Braid
- The sense of touch and common feeling / Ernst Heinrich Weber
- On the rate of transmission of the nerve impulse / Hermann von Helmholtz
- The Young-Helmholtz theory of color vision / Hermann von Helmholtz
- Elements of psychophysics / Gustav Theodor Fechner
- Concerning the perceptions in general / Hermann von Helmholtz
- Classification of men according to their natural gifts / Francis Galton
- Principles of physiological psychology / Wilhelm Wundt
- The mind of the child / Wilhelm Preyer
- The contents of children's minds / Granville Stanley Hall
- Inquiries into human faculty and its development / Francis Galton
- What is emotion? / William James
- Concerning memory / Hermann Ebbinghaus
- On the temperature-sense / Henry Herbert Donaldson
- The influence of the intensity of the stimulus on the length of the reaction time / James McKeen Cattell
- The time it takes to see and name objects / James McKeen Cattell
- Experiments on the association of ideas / James McKeen Cattell
- Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data / Francis Galton
- Mental tests and measurements / James McKeen Cattell
- The reflex arc concept of a structural psychology / John Dewey
- The postulates of a structural psychology / Edward Bradford Titchener
- Animal intelligence / Edward Lee Thorndike
- The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions / Edward Lee Thorndike and Robert Sessions Woodworth
- The measurement of twins / Edward Lee Thorndike
- Upon the necessity of establishing a scientific diagnosis of inferior states of intelligence / Alfred Binet and Theophile Simon
- The development of the Binet-Simon scale / Alfred Binet and Theophile Simon
- Scientific study of the so-called psychical processes in the higher animals / Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov
- The province of functional psychology / James Rowland Angell
- Psychology as the behaviorist views it / John Broadus Watson
- The delayed reaction in animals and children / Walter Samuel Hunter
- Recent studies of bodily effects of fear, rage, and pain / Walter Bradford Cannon
- The measurement of intelligence / Lewis Madison Terman
- The mentality of apes / Wolfgang Köhler
- The retention of habits by the rat after destruction of the frontal portion of the cerebrum / Shepard Ivory Franz and Karl Spencer Lashley
- Physical gestalten / Wolfgang Köhler
- Psychological examining in the United States army / Robert Mearns Yerkes
- The development of behavior in vertebrates experimentally removed from the influence of external stimulation / Leonard Carmichael
- The relative influence of nature and nurture upon mental development / Barbara Stoddard Burks
- Brain mechanisms and intelligence / Karl Spencer Lashley
- Simple trial-and-error learning: a study in psychological theory / Clark Leonard Hull.
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