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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University
German Psychologists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Psychophysics

  1. Gustav Fechner
    1. Education
    2. Ernst Weber
      1. De Tactu
      2. Absolute Threshold
      3. Two-point Discrimination Threshold
      4. jnd
      5. Weber's Rato
    3. Elements of Psychophysics
    4. S=k log R
  2. Psychophysics in Perspective
    1. Contemporary Use

Hermann Ebbinghaus

  1. Ebbinghaus's Early Academic Career
    1. Concerning Memory
    2. Nonsense Syllables
  2. The Ebbinghaus Experiments
    1. Number of Repetitions
    2. Relearning Times
    3. Savings Scores
    4. Forgetting Curve
    5. Neisser's Challenge
  3. Sir Frederick Bartlett and the War of the Ghosts
    1. Research via Demonstration
    2. Schemas
    3. Method of Repeated Reproduction
  4. Ebbinghaus Tackles an Applied Problem
    1. Greisbach
      1. Two-point Discrimination Thresholds
      2. Question of Content Validity
    2. Analogy and Completion Tasks
  5. Ebbinghaus in Perspective

Franz Brentano

  1. Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
  2. Brentano's Contribution to Psychology
    1. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
    2. Act Psychology
  3. Brentano in Perspective

Carl Stumpf

  1. Education
  2. Music
  3. Stumpf's Early Academic Career
    1. Golden Section
    2. Nativistic Depth Perception
  4. Stumpf Gains Academic Prominence
    1. Tone Psychology
    2. Phenomenology versus Psychology
    3. Chair of Philosophy at Berlin
    4. Society for Child Psychology
  5. Stumpf Studies Sensational Phenomena
    1. Sound from Pictures of Sound Waves
    2. Muhamed and Krall
    3. Clever Hans and Von Osten
      1. Head of Investigative Commission
      2. Pfungst
        1. With Knowledge versus Without
  6. Stumpf's Later Years
    1. WWI

Oswald Külpe

  1. Education and Early Career
  2. Külpe Defines a General Experimental Psychology
    1. Positivist Position
  3. Research at the University of Würzburg
    1. Marbe and Weight Judgment
    2. Bryan and Apprehension
    3. Watts and Volition and Cognitive Set
    4. Ach and Decision Types
    5. Bühler and Imageless Thought
    6. Moore and Meaning versus Image
  4. Würzburg Under Attack
    1. Wundt and Titchener

The Lost German Psychologists

  1. Effects of WWI and WWII








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