| Description |
xii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in the history of psychology |
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Cambridge studies in the history of psychology.
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| Contents |
1. The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology -- 2. Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin -- 3. The philosophers' protest -- 4. Making a science of mind: Styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology -- 5. Challenging positivism: Revised philosophies of mind and science -- 6. The Gestalt debate: From Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond -- 7. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler -- 8. Laying the conceptual and research foundations -- 9. Reconstructing perception and behavior -- 10. Insights and confirmations in animals: Kohler on Tenerife -- 11. The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten -- 12. Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: Science for the military and toward a new logic -- 13. Establishing the Berlin school -- 14. Research styles and results -- 15. Theory's growth and limits: Development, open systems, self and society. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-500) and index. |
| Subject |
Gestalt psychology -- History.
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Psychology -- Germany -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Psychology History |
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Germany |
| ISBN |
0521475406 hardback |
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