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A History of Modern Experimental Psychology - From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
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A History of Modern Experimental Psychology - From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
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The evolution of cognitive psychology, traced from the beginnings
of a rigorous experimental psychology at the end of the nineteenth
century to the "cognitive revolution" at the end of the twentieth,
and the social and cultural contexts of its theoretical
developments. Modern psychology began with the adoption of
experimental methods at the end of the nineteenth century: Wilhelm
Wundt established the first formal laboratory in 1879; universities
created independent chairs in psychology shortly thereafter; and
William James published the landmark work Principles of Psychology
in 1890. In A History of Modern Experimental Psychology, George
Mandler traces the evolution of modern experimental and theoretical
psychology from these beginnings to the "cognitive revolution" of
the late twentieth century. Throughout, he emphasizes the social
and cultural context, showing how different theoretical
developments reflect the characteristics and values of the society
in which they occurred. Thus, Gestalt psychology can be seen to
mirror the changes in visual and intellectual culture at the turn
of the century, behaviorism to embody the parochial and puritanical
concerns of early twentieth-century America, and contemporary
cognitive psychology as a product of the postwar revolution in
information and communication. After discussing the meaning and
history of the concept of mind, Mandler treats the history of the
psychology of thought and memory from the late nineteenth century
to the end of the twentieth, exploring, among other topics, the
discovery of the unconscious, the destruction of psychology in
Germany in the 1930s, and the relocation of the field's "center of
gravity" to the United States. He then examines a more neglected
part of the history of psychology-the emergence of a new and robust
cognitive psychology under the umbrella of cognitive science.
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