Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology
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Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology

International William T. Preyer Symposium

  1. 422 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology

International William T. Preyer Symposium

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Table of contents

  1. Frontispiece: William T. Preyer (1841-1897) List of Contributors
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Prologue
  6. Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology
  7. 1. The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology
  8. 2. Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation
  9. 3. The Importance of Rousseau’s Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology
  10. 4. The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology
  11. 5. The Concept of Development in Herder’s Philosophical Anthropology
  12. 6. The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology
  13. 7. Victor de l’Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy
  14. 8. The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C. G. Carus
  15. 9. Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant” : An Early Phase in his Psychological Work
  16. 10. Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States
  17. 11. Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer
  18. Part II: William T. Preyer – His Time, His Work and His Influence
  19. 12. Preyer’s Road to Child Psychology
  20. 13. Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records
  21. 14. The Relationship Between Preyer’s Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
  22. 15. Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist
  23. 16. Preyer and the German School Reform MoveÂŹment
  24. 17. Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology
  25. 18. Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of AncesÂŹtral Immanence
  26. 19. Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany
  27. Part III:Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development
  28. 20. Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science
  29. 21. William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychologi¬cal Science
  30. 22. The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology
  31. 23. The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology
  32. 24. The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka
  33. 25. The Role of Film in John B. Watson’s Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences
  34. 26. Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology
  35. 27. The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila
  36. Epilogue
  37. About the Authors
  38. Index