Explorations in the History of Psychology in the United StatesJosef Brožek This collection of monographs traces the development of psychology in the United States from the 1630s to the present, describing and explaining the influence of European and indigenous doctrines and methods, and chronicling the process from meager beginnings to world leadership in the field. Illustrated. |
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... Hill's academic title was changed from " Professor of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy " to " Professor of ... Hill introduced his students to the best in contemporary thought in psychology - American , French , and German . William ...
... Hill's academic title was changed from " Professor of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy " to " Professor of ... Hill introduced his students to the best in contemporary thought in psychology - American , French , and German . William ...
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... . Brožek , Josef M. BF108.U5E96 1983 ISBN 0-8387-5039-7 150'.973 81-72024 Printed in the United States of America Dedicated to the Memory of DAVID JAYNE HILL President of © 1984 by Associated University Presses , Inc.
... . Brožek , Josef M. BF108.U5E96 1983 ISBN 0-8387-5039-7 150'.973 81-72024 Printed in the United States of America Dedicated to the Memory of DAVID JAYNE HILL President of © 1984 by Associated University Presses , Inc.
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Josef Brožek. Dedicated to the Memory of DAVID JAYNE HILL President of the University at Lewisburg ( later Bucknell University ) 1879-1888 Professor of Psychology and Ethics , 1881-1888 and author of Elements of Psychology ( 1888 ) ...
Josef Brožek. Dedicated to the Memory of DAVID JAYNE HILL President of the University at Lewisburg ( later Bucknell University ) 1879-1888 Professor of Psychology and Ethics , 1881-1888 and author of Elements of Psychology ( 1888 ) ...
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... Hill : BetweeN THE OLD AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 121 Josef Brožek Introduction General Chronological Framework The University at Lewisburg ( Bucknell ) Learning at Lewisburg 121 123 123 125 Teaching at Lewisburg ... Hill's Publications 127.
... Hill : BetweeN THE OLD AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 121 Josef Brožek Introduction General Chronological Framework The University at Lewisburg ( Bucknell ) Learning at Lewisburg 121 123 123 125 Teaching at Lewisburg ... Hill's Publications 127.
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Josef Brožek. The University of Rochester Thinking and Writing Hill's Publications 127 128 128 The Elements of Psychology 129 Genetic Philosophy 136 From Dualism toward Monism 139 Applying Psychology 142 Synopsis 143 WILLIAM JAMES'S ...
Josef Brožek. The University of Rochester Thinking and Writing Hill's Publications 127 128 128 The Elements of Psychology 129 Genetic Philosophy 136 From Dualism toward Monism 139 Applying Psychology 142 Synopsis 143 WILLIAM JAMES'S ...
Contents
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ITS APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 61 |
John Dewey and J F Angell | 165 |
E L Thorndike | 167 |
R S Woodworth | 171 |
W B Cannon | 172 |
Mary W Calkins and Gordon Allport | 175 |
G H Mead | 177 |
Morton Prince Boris Sidis and J J Putnam | 181 |
Overview | 184 |
The Theory of the Mind | 62 |
Creating a Need for Conversion | 63 |
The Fruitless Search for God and Salvation | 67 |
A Preface to the Operation of the Spirit in Conversion | 69 |
The Discovery of Divine Love | 73 |
The Psychological Basis of Spiritual Uncertainty | 78 |
The Need for Criteria | 79 |
Marks and Signs as Evidence | 81 |
Solemn Inward Pain of Truth | 85 |
Edwardss Achievement | 87 |
The Psychological Thought of Jonathan Edwards 17031758 A Historiographical Review | 97 |
BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY | 121 |
General Chronological Framework | 123 |
Teaching at Lewisburg | 125 |
Presidency at Lewisburg | 126 |
The University of Rochester | 127 |
Thinking and Writing | 128 |
The Elements of Psychology | 129 |
Genetic Philosophy | 136 |
From Dualism toward Monism | 139 |
Applying Psychology | 142 |
Synopsis | 143 |
ITS REVOLUTIONARY IMPACT ON AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY | 148 |
William Jamess Psychology of Will | 149 |
Fiat as Inhibition and Consent | 151 |
Feelings of Innervation Refuted on Empirical Grounds | 153 |
A Functionalist Critique of the Association of Ideas | 155 |
The Impact on American Psychology | 158 |
J M Baldwin | 160 |
Conclusion | 186 |
PIONEER PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORIES IN CLINICAL SETTINGS | 196 |
1 Growth of Academic Laboratories | 197 |
2 Equipment | 199 |
3 Support | 201 |
5 The Laboratory and Scientific Psychology | 202 |
6 To Introspect or Not to Introspect | 203 |
7 Laboratories in Action | 205 |
Psychological Research in Psychiatric Settings | 207 |
Institutional Personnel | 209 |
Academic Personnel | 226 |
An Overview | 227 |
Psychological Research in the Context of Mental Deficiency | 228 |
The Laboratory Era | 230 |
Between the Experimental Laboratory and the Testing Room | 235 |
The Mental Testers | 253 |
JAMES MCKEEN CATTELL AND AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY IN THE 1920S | 273 |
Mental Testing | 276 |
Industrial Psychology | 283 |
Certification of Consulting Psychologists | 290 |
Financial Support of Child Psychology | 292 |
The Psychological Community and E B Titchener | 294 |
The Ninth International Congress of Psychology | 295 |
Gestalt Psychology in America | 297 |
Closing Comments | 307 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 324 |
INDEX | 327 |
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Page 154 - Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
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Page 152 - In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings went along with activities conducive to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually-avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life...
Page 66 - LORD give me Salvation ! I PRAY, BEG pardon all my Sins! When the Child had done Prayer, she came out of the Closet, and came and sat down by her Mother, and cried out aloud. Her Mother very earnestly asked her several times, what the matter was, before she would make any Answer; but she continued exceedingly crying, and wreathing her Body to and fro, like one in Anguish of Spirit.
Page 64 - Persons are first awakened with a sense of their miserable condition by nature, the danger they are in of perishing eternally, and that it is of great importance to them that they speedily escape, and get into a better state. Those...
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Page 69 - The will, and the affections of the soul, are not two faculties; the affections are not essentially distinct from the will, nor do they differ from the mere actings of the will, and inclination of the soul, but only in the liveliness and sensibleness of exercise.
Page 75 - So this new spiritual sense is not a new faculty of understanding, but it is a new foundation laid in the nature of the soul, for a new kind of exercises of the same faculty of understanding.
Page 72 - This faculty is called by various names: it is sometimes called the inclination; and, as it has respect to the actions that are determined and governed by it, is called the will; and the mind, with regard to the exercises of this faculty, is often called the heart.