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Title:
A history of modern experimental psychology : from James and Wundt to cognitive science / George Mandler.
Author:
Mandler, George.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Call Number:
BF181 .M27 2011
Edition:
First MIT Press paperback edition
ISBN:
9780262516082
Physical Description:
xx, 287 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"A Bradford book."
Contents:
The modern mind : its history and current use -- Aristotle to Alexander Bain : prolegomena of modern psychology -- The social context for the new psychology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The birth of modern psychology : Wilhelm Wundt and William James -- The "discovery" of the unconscious : imageless thought -- The early twentieth century : consolidation in Europe and behaviorism in America -- The interwar years : psychology matures and theories abound -- The destruction of psychology in Germany, 1933 to 1945 -- The success of Gestalt theory and its translation to the United States -- A new age of psychology at the end of World War II -- Two case histories from the new psychology -- Old problems and new directions at the end of the century -- The clouded crystal ball : psychology today and tomorrow.
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