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

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Frontispiece: William T. Preyer (1841-1897) List of Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Prologue Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology 1. The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology 2. Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation 3. The Importance of Rousseau’s Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology 4. The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology 5. The Concept of Development in Herder’s Philosophical Anthropology 6. The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology 7. Victor de l’Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy 8. The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C. G. Carus 9. Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant” : An Early Phase in his Psychological Work 10. Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States 11. Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer Part II: William T. Preyer – His Time, His Work and His Influence 12. Preyer’s Road to Child Psychology 13. Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records 14. The Relationship Between Preyer’s Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution 15. Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist 16. Preyer and the German School Reform Move¬ment 17. Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology 18. Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ances¬tral Immanence 19. Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany Part III:Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development 20. Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science 21. William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychologi¬cal Science 22. The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology 23. The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology 24. The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka 25. The Role of Film in John B. Watson’s Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences 26. Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology 27. The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila Epilogue About the Authors Index