Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology : : International William T. Preyer Symposium / / ed. by Georg Eckardt, Lothar Sprung, Wolfgang G. Bringmann.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ash, Mitchell G.,; Balance, William D.G.,; Behrens, Peter J.,; Bringmann, Norma J.,; Bringmann, Wolfgang G.,; Bronfenbrenner, Urie,; Cavanaugh, John C.,; Danziger, Kurt,; Dixon, Roger A.,; Eckardt, Georg,; Fritsche, Christina,; Grober, Howard E.,; Harris, Benjamin,; Jaeger, Siegfried,; Jääskeläinen, Manu,; Keegan, Robert T.,; Köhler, Ursula,; Lerner, Richard M.,; Lowry, Richard,; Mitzenheim, Paul,; Métraux, Alexandre,; Ortmann, Frank,; Richards, Robert J.,; Scheerer, Eckart,; Schmidt, Hans-Dieter,; Sprung, Helga,; Sprung, Lothar,; Staeuble, Irmingard,; Tobach, Ethel,; Tweney, Ryan D.,; Wertheimer, Michael,; Wessel, Karl-Friedrich,; Wohlwill, Joachim F.,; Woodward, William R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bringmann, Wolfgang G.,; Eckardt, Georg,; Sprung, Lothar,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology
• The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology
• Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation
• The Importance of Rousseau's Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology
• The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology
• The Concept of Development in Herder’s Philosophical Anthropology
• The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology
• Victor de l’Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy
• The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C.G. Carus
• Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant”: An Early Phase in his Psychological Work
• Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States
• Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer
• Part II: William T. Preyer – His Time, His Work, and His Influence
• Preyer’s Road to Child Psychology
• Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records
• The Relationship Between Preyer’s Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
• Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist
• Preyer and the German School Reform Movement
• Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology
• Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ancestral Immanence
• William Preyer’s Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany
• Part III: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development
• Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science
• William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science
• The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology
• The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology
• The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka
• The Role of Film in John B.Watson’s Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences
• Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology
• The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila
• Epilogue
• About the Authors
• Index
• Backmatter