A History of Modern Psychology. 4th Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, October 2012, Pages: 576
The enhanced 4th Edition of Goodwin's series, A History of Modern Psychology, explores the modern history of psychology including the fundamental bases of psychology and psychology's advancements in the 20th century. Goodwin, Ph.D. in experimental psychology, has a true passion for the history of experimental psychology. Strengths of the text include his conversational writing style and attention to recent scholarship in the history of psychology. Goodwin's 4th Edition focuses on the reduction of biographical information with an emphasis on more substantial information including ideas and concepts and on ideas/research contributions; more history on the applied areas of psychology; condensed chapters, philosophical antecedents and physiological antecedents; and more psychology's history in the 20th century.
Chapter 1: Introducing Psychology's History
Chapter 2: The Philosophical Context
Chapter 3: The Physiological Context: Early Research on the Nervous System
Chapter 4: Wundt and German Psychology
Chapter 5: Darwin's Century: Evolutionary Thinking
Chapter 6: American Pioneers
Chapter 7: Structuralism and Functionalism
Chapter 8: Applying the New Psychology
Chapter 9: Gestalt Psychology
Chapter 10: The Origins of Behaviorism
Chapter 11: The Evolution of Behaviorism
Chapter 12: Mental Illness and its Treatment
Chapter 13: Psychology's Practitioners
Chapter 14: Psychological Science in the Post-War Era
Chapter 15: Linking Psychology's Past and Present
C. James Goodwin Western Carolina University.
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