Research Catalog

Title

Thinking in psychological science : ideas and their makers / Jaan Valsiner, editor.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Valsiner, Jaan.

Description

xiii, 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Psychologists > Biography
• Psychology > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction - how our future can be observed in our past : mental bases for scientific inquiry / Jaan Valsiner -- Pt. I. Roots of cognitive science : Karl Duncker -- 1. Karl Duncker and cognitive science / Herbert A. Simon -- 2. Life as the problem : Karl Duncker's context / Simone Schnall -- 3. Duncker's account of productive thinking : exegesis and application of a problem-solving theory / Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds -- 4. Duncker's analysis of problem-solving as microdevelopment / Kurt Fischer and Jeffrey Stewart -- Pt. II. Abstractive generalization through language : the legacy of Karl Buhler -- 5. The pleasure of thinking : a glimpse into Karl Buhler's life / Jaan Valsiner -- 6. Remembering Karl Buhler : discovering unanticipated resemblances with my distancing-representational model / Irying E. Sigel -- 7. Buhler's legacy : full circle and ahead / Nancy Budwig -- Pt. III. Thinking and speaking : development through thinking, acting, and speaking -- 8. Arnold Gesell and the maturation controversy / Thomas C. Dalton -- 9. Alexander F. Chamberlain : a life's work / Julia Berkman -- 10. The fate of the forgotten : Chamberlain's work reconsidered / Jaan Valsiner -- Pt. IV. The dynamic whole : Gestalt ideas and social practices -- 11. Tamara Dembo's European years / Rene van der Veer -- 12. Between Scylla and Charybdis : Tamara Dembo and rehabilitation psychology / Simone de Lima -- 13. Tamara Dembo's socio-emotional relationships / Joseph de Rivera -- Pt. V. Dissecting methodology and thinking of development -- 14. The legacy of Adolf Meyer's comparative approach : Worcester rats and the strange birth of the animal model / Cheryl A. Logan -- 15. Zing-Yang Kuo : personal recollections and intimations of developmental science / Gilbert Gottlieb -- 16. Kuo's epigenetic vision for psychological sciences : dynamic developmental systems theory / Robert Lickliter.

ISBN

• 0765803488 (alk. paper)
• 9780765803481 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006040463

OCLC

• ocm64427523
• 64427523
• SCSB-5320188

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries