A History of Psychology : The Emergence of Science and Applications.
| Author/creator | Woody, William Douglas |
| Other author | Viney, Wayne. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 7th ed. |
| Publication Info | Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource (443 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Direct link to eBook |
| Contents | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- New to This Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Historiographic and Philosophical Issues -- 1 Critical Issues in Historical Studies -- Why Study History? -- History Enriches Our Sense of Time -- History as a Contribution to Liberal Education -- History Teaches Humility -- History Teaches a Healthy Skepticism -- History Influences Human Thought Processes -- Some Problems in Historiography -- The Development of Historical Consciousness -- What Is History? -- Can History Be Objective? |
| Contents | The Tyranny of the Present -- Is There a Pattern or Direction in History? -- What Makes History? -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- 2 Philosophical Issues -- Epistemology -- A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge -- Nativism Versus Empiricism -- Instinct Versus Learning -- What Are the Criteria by Which We Claim to Know Truth? -- The Role of Emotions in Knowledge -- Science and Epistemology -- Relevance of Epistemology to Psychology -- The Problem of Causality -- Free Will and Determinism -- The Mind-Body Problem -- Monism -- Dualism -- Pluralism -- Psychogeny -- The Problem of Explanation |
| Contents | Explanation by Analogies and Comparisons -- Glossary -- Part II Early Psychological Thought -- 3 Ancient Psychological Thought -- Early Chinese Psychologies -- Babylonia -- Egypt -- Other Ancient Eastern Psychologies -- The Hebrews -- Persia -- Greece -- The Cosmologists -- Early Greek Concepts of Illness -- Relativism -- The Golden Age of Greece -- Psychological Thought Following Aristotle -- Glossary -- 4 The Roman Period and the Middle Ages -- Roman Medicine -- Galen -- Roman Philosophy -- Stoicism -- Cynicism -- Epicureanism -- Neo-Platonism -- Skepticism -- The Fall of Rome |
| Contents | The Early Christian Faith -- The Medieval Period -- Aurelius Augustine -- Islam -- Judaism in the Middle Ages -- The Rise of the European Universities -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- 5 The Renaissance -- The Black Death -- A New Worldview -- Influence of the Greek Classics -- Diffusion of Authority -- Growth of Empirical Studies -- Quantification -- Changing Visions of the World -- The Heliocentric Theory -- Galileo Galilei -- The Larger Meaning of the Copernican Revolution -- Psychological Thought in the Renaissance -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- Juan Luis Vives -- Leonardo da Vinci |
| Contents | Michel de Montaigne -- Oliva Sabuco -- Juan Huarte -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Part III Modern Intellectual Developments That Contributed to the Birth of Psychology -- 6 Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism -- Empiricism -- Francis Bacon -- John Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Empiricism on the Continent -- Associationism and Utilitarianism -- David Hartley -- Jeremy Bentham -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- James Mill -- John Stuart Mill -- Contributions of Empiricism -- Glossary -- 7 Rationalism -- Emphasis on A Priori Knowledge -- Theory of the Active Mind |
| General note | Description based upon print version of record. |
| General note | Deduction Versus Induction |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Woody, William Douglas A History of Psychology Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 9781032035086 |
| ISBN | 9781000906530 |
| ISBN | 1000906531 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |