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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... York , later to be King's College and finally Columbia . In most respects , Johnson attempted to live up to the concepts he had laid out in his " More accurate Table for the Partition of the Sciences , " published with the Elementa . In ...
... York , later to be King's College and finally Columbia . In most respects , Johnson attempted to live up to the concepts he had laid out in his " More accurate Table for the Partition of the Sciences , " published with the Elementa . In ...
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... some French editions of Cousin's writ- ings were in the United States by the 1830s , it was Caleb Sprague Henry , profes- | sor of philosophy at New York University , who translated 46 EXPLORATIONS in the HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY.
... some French editions of Cousin's writ- ings were in the United States by the 1830s , it was Caleb Sprague Henry , profes- | sor of philosophy at New York University , who translated 46 EXPLORATIONS in the HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY.
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Josef Brožek. sor of philosophy at New York University , who translated and edited Cousin's writings and issued in 1834 Victor Cousin's Elements of Psychology : Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay . Cousin's impact was ...
Josef Brožek. sor of philosophy at New York University , who translated and edited Cousin's writings and issued in 1834 Victor Cousin's Elements of Psychology : Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay . Cousin's impact was ...
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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 88 - In all demonstrative sciences the rules are certain and infallible; but when we apply them, our fallible and uncertain faculties are very apt to depart from them, and fall into error.
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.
Page 19 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
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...
Page 190 - To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare.
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.