Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology

Volume IV

Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780805838534
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135647797
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This fourth book in the series continues the tradition of the popular earlier volumes by offering lively and entertaining information about some of contemporary psychology's most illustrious ancestors. The 21 chapters, many of them written by today's most visible and eminent authors, concentrate on the lives and achievements of major psychologists from a variety of areas.

Created for undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology, the variety of pioneers represented provide enough flexibility to also use it as a supplemental reader in other psychology courses. Each of the five volumes in this series contains different profiles thereby bringing more than 100 of the pioneers in psychology more vividly to life.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• PREFACE
• PORTRAITS OF THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS
• CHAPTER 1: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THOMAS UPHAM
• CHAPTER 2: HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON HELMHOLTZ: PHYSICIST AS PSYCHOLOGIST
• CHAPTER 3: GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON AND MIND: THE STORY OF PSYCHOLOGY’S FIRST EDITOR
• CHAPTER 4: CARL STUMPF: EXPERIMENTER, THEORETICIAN, MUSICOLOGIST, AND PROMOTER
• CHAPTER 5: GEORG ELIAS MÜLLER AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
• CHAPTER 6: CHARLES E.SPEARMAN: THE DISCOVERER OF g
• CHAPTER 7: HUGO MÜNSTERBERG: PORTRAIT OF AN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGIST
• CHAPTER 8: LEWIS TERMAN: SCIENTIST OF MENTAL MEASUREMENT AND PRODUCT OF HIS TIME
• CHAPTER 9: SIR FREDERIC CHARLES BARTLETT: EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGIST
• CHAPTER 10: KAREN HORNEY: THE THREE PHASES OF HER THOUGHT
• CHAPTER 11: FRANCIS CECIL SUMNER: THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PIONEER IN PSYCHOLOGY
• CHAPTER 12: FRITZ HEIDER: PHILOSOPHER AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST
• CHAPTER 13: T.C.SCHNEIRLA: PIONEER IN FIELD AND LABORATORY RESEARCH
• CHAPTER 14: STARKE ROSECRANS HATHAWAY: BIOGRAPHY OF AN EMPIRICIST
• CHAPTER 15: WHAT A LIGHT IT SHED: THE LIFE OF EVELYN HOOKER
• CHAPTER 16: FRANK A.BEACH, MASTER TEACHER
• CHAPTER 17: CARL IVER HOVLAND: STATESMAN OF PSYCHOLOGY, STERLING HUMAN BEING
• CHAPTER 18: STUART W.COOK: A “COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGIST”
• CHAPTER 19: ROGER W.SPERRY: NOBEL LAUREATE, NEUROSCIENTIST, AND PSYCHOLOGIST
• CHAPTER 20: HANS EYSENCK: APOSTLE OF THE LONDON SCHOOL
• CHAPTER 21: SIGMUND KOCH: HUMAN AGENCY AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES