Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology: International William T. Preyer Symposium

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Contents List of Contributors Foreword • Urie Bronfenbrenner Preface • Karl-Friedrich Wessel Acknowledgments Prologue • Lothar Sprung, Wolfgang G. Bringmann and Georg Eckardt Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology 1. The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology • Michael Wertheimer 2. Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation • Eckart Scheerer 3. The Importance of Rousseau’s Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology • Paul Mitzenheim 4. The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology • Siegfried Jaeger 5. The Concept of Development in Herder’s Philosophical Anthropology • Hans-Dieter Schmidt 6. The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology • Irmingard Staeuhle 7. Victor de l’Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy • Alexandre Métraux 8. The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C. G. Carus • Ursula Köhler 9. Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant”: An Early Phase in his Psychological Work • Robert T. Keegan and Howard E. Gruber .10. Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States • William R. Woodward 11. Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer • Wolfgang G. Bringmann, Norma J. Bringmann and William D. G. Balance Part II: William T. Preyer—His Time, His Work and His Influence 12. Preyer’s Road to Child Psychology • Georg Eckardt 13. Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records • John C. Cavanaugh 14. The Relationship Between Preyer’s Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution • Ethel Tobach 15. Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist • Helga Sprung and Lothar Sprung 16. Preyer and the German School Reform Movement • Siegfried Jaeger 17. Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology • Roger A. Dixon and Richard M. Lerner 18. Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ancestral Immanence • Richard Lowry 19. William Preyer’s Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany • Christina Fritsche and Frank Ortmann Part III: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development 20. Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science • Ryan D. Tweney 21. William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science • Robert J. Richards 22. The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology • Kurt Danziger 23. The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology • Peter J. Behrens 24. The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka • Mitchell G. Ash 25. The Role of Film in John B. Watson’s Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences • Benjamin Harris 26. Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology • Joachim F. Wohlwill 27. The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila • Manu Jääskeläinen Epilogue • Helga Sprung About the Authors Index