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A History of Experimental Psychology.
A history of modern Psychology within Science. Discussions of the brain, Psychology of sensation. Also touches on Psychology within Philosophy, as well as the establishment of Psychology in Germany, Great Britain and America.
- GenresPsychology
7 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1950
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July 30, 2023
My fav genre of academic book elucidates the reading on the subject matter, and it’s historical development. Oh how excited I was to find this classic . Boring was a Very big scholar in his day. He is pretty much as legit as it gets.
Experimental psych was an innovation. It still is. One may say, but wait isn’t all psych experimental? No. Not at all for almost all of history that the mind was a subject of inquiry psychology was little more than a philosophical army chair past time. The felid like many things was a child of religious and platonic metaphysics and matured with the rise of modernity with modern skepticism rationalism empiricism and industrial science to what we know today. Which are theories supported by empirical observations. Of course it’s not so perfect and there is always a lot of junk out there. But the creation of the science of psychology in the middle of the 19th century was truly wonderful.
This book was written at a time when the fields of psych and neuro had yet really had too much of a differentiation, so there is an interesting goal within this book to ground the mind within its physical form. Quite cool.
I think the felid of psych neuro that this book is most similar is that of cognitive science from “psychophysics” to mapping the world internally. There is a ton of historical insight on the subject.
If you seek anything related to psychoanalysis, or the emotional life of people, or any sort of social psychology you will be dismayed . The ideas researched on this felid at this time were not so clinically and emotionally oriented.
Amazing book for what it is. This is a severely unrelated history book.
It is by some places claimed to be one of the first history books in psychology. And man it’s good. It used to apparently be read in many colleges but for reasons I have yet to uncover, it dropped out of the curricula .
Either way. Fun book of this is your sort of thing
Experimental psych was an innovation. It still is. One may say, but wait isn’t all psych experimental? No. Not at all for almost all of history that the mind was a subject of inquiry psychology was little more than a philosophical army chair past time. The felid like many things was a child of religious and platonic metaphysics and matured with the rise of modernity with modern skepticism rationalism empiricism and industrial science to what we know today. Which are theories supported by empirical observations. Of course it’s not so perfect and there is always a lot of junk out there. But the creation of the science of psychology in the middle of the 19th century was truly wonderful.
This book was written at a time when the fields of psych and neuro had yet really had too much of a differentiation, so there is an interesting goal within this book to ground the mind within its physical form. Quite cool.
I think the felid of psych neuro that this book is most similar is that of cognitive science from “psychophysics” to mapping the world internally. There is a ton of historical insight on the subject.
If you seek anything related to psychoanalysis, or the emotional life of people, or any sort of social psychology you will be dismayed . The ideas researched on this felid at this time were not so clinically and emotionally oriented.
Amazing book for what it is. This is a severely unrelated history book.
It is by some places claimed to be one of the first history books in psychology. And man it’s good. It used to apparently be read in many colleges but for reasons I have yet to uncover, it dropped out of the curricula .
Either way. Fun book of this is your sort of thing
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