Wilhelm Wundt in History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilhelm Wundt in History write by Robert W. Rieber. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Wilhelm Wundt in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new millenium it may be fair to ask, "Why look at Wundt?" Over the years, many authors have taken fairly detailed looks at the work and accomplishments of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920). This was especially true of the years around 1979, the centennial of the Leipzig Institute for Experimental Psychology, the birthplace of the "graduate program" in psychology. More than twenty years have passed since then, and in the intervening time those centennial studies have attracted the attention and have motivated the efforts of a variety of historians, philosophers, psychologists, and other social scientists. They have profited from the questions raised earlier about theoretical, methodological, sociological, and even political aspects affecting the organized study of mind and behavior; they have also proposed some new directions for research in the history of the behavioral and social sciences. With the advantage of the historiographic perspective that twenty years can bring, this volume will consider this much-heralded "founding father of psychology" once again. Some of the authors are veterans of the centennial who contributed to a very useful volume, edited by Robert W. Rieber, Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology (New York: Plenum Press, 1980). Others are scholars who have joined Wundt studies since then, and have used that book, among others, as a guide to further work. The first chapter, "Wundt before Leipzig," is essentially unchanged from the 1980 volume.
Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology write by Robert Rieber. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The creation of this book stems largely from the current centennial cele bration of the founding in Leipzig of Wundt's psychological laboratory. Wundt is acknowledged by many as one of the principal founders of experimental psychology. His laboratory, his journal, and his students were all influential in the transmission of the new psychology from Germany to all parts of the world. Nevertheless, until recently, psychol ogists and historians of science hardly recognized the scope and breadth of Wundt's influence, not to mention his contributions.! It was first through E. B. Titchener, and then through Titchener's student, E. G. Boring, that psychology got to know the somewhat biased and distorted picture of this great German psychologist. The picture painted by Titch ener and Boring was unquestionably the way they saw him, and the way they wished to use him as a part of the scientific psychological Zeitgeist of their time.
Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific Psychology
Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific Psychology write by Chiara Russo Krauss. This book was released on 2019-03-25. Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reconstructs the rise and fall of Wilhelm Wundt’s fortunes, focusing for the first time on the role of Richard Avenarius as catalyst for the so-called “positivist repudiation of Wundt.” Krauss specifically looks at the progressive disavowal of Wundtian ideas in the world of scientific psychology, and especially by his former pupils. This book provides important historical context and a critical discussion of the current state of research, in addition to a detailed consideration of Wundt’s and Avenarius’ systems of thought, as well as on their personal relationship. The author outlines the reception of Avenarius’ conceptions among Wundt’s pupils, such as Külpe, Münsterberg and Titchener, and among other psychologists of the time, such as Ward, James and Ebbinghaus. Finally, this book presents Wundt’s two-fold attempt to respond to the new trend through a criticism of the “materialistic” psychology, and a reformulation of his own ideas.
Principles of Physiological Psychology
Principles of Physiological Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Principles of Physiological Psychology write by Wilhelm Max Wundt. This book was released on 1904. Principles of Physiological Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Discovering Cultural Psychology
Discovering Cultural Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discovering Cultural Psychology write by Walter J. Lonner. This book was released on 2007-06-01. Discovering Cultural Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wundt—yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. While Wundt’s experimental psychology has been hailed as the root for contemporary scientific psychology, the other side of his contribution— ethnographic analysis of folk traditions and higher psychological functions— has been largely discredited as something disconnected from the scientific realm. As an example of “soft” science—lacking the “hardness” of experimentation—it has been considered to be an esoteric hobby of the founding father of contemporary psychology. Of course that focus is profoundly wrong—the opposition “soft” versus “hard” just does not fit as a metalevel organizer of any science. Yet the rhetoric discounting the descriptive side of Wundt’s psychology is merely an act of social guidance of what psychologists do—not a way of creating knowledge.
