Supplementary text for:\\PSY 101 \General Psychology PSY101.

Prologue: Exploring the Universe Within -- A Psychological Experiment in the Seventh Century B.C. -- Messages from the Gods -- The Discovery of the Mind -- Part 1 Prescientific Psychology -- 1 The Conjecturers -- The Glory That Was Greece -- The Forerunners: Alcmaeon, Protagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates -- The "Midwife of Thought": Socrates -- The Idealist: Plato -- The Realist: Aristotle -- 2 The Scholars -- The Long Sleep -- The Commentators: Theophrastus, the Hellenists, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, the Stoics -- Roman Borrowers: Lucretius, Seneca, Epictetus, Galen, Plotinus -- The Patrist Adapters: the Patrists, Tertullian, Saint Augustine -- The Patrist Reconcilers: the Schoolmen, Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The Darkness Before Dawn -- 3 The Protopsychologists -- The Third Visitation -- The Rationalists: Descartes, the Cartesians, Spinoza -- The Empiricists: Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, the Empiricist-Associationist School -- German Nativism: Leibniz, Kant -- Part 2 Founders of a New Science -- 4 The Physicalists -- The Magician-Healer: Mesmer -- The Skull Reader: Gall -- The Mechanists -- Specific Nerve Energy: Muller -- Just Noticeable Differences: Weber -- Neural Physiology: von Helmholtz -- Psychophysics: Fechner -- 5 First Among Equals: Wundt -- As Good a Birth Date as Any -- The Making of the First Psychologist -- The Curious Goings-on at Konvikt -- Wundtian Psychology -- Sic Transit -- 6 The Psychologist Malgre Lui: William James -- "This Is No Science" -- Adorable Genius -- Founding Father -- Ideas of the Pre-eminent Psychologizer -- Jamesian Paradoxes -- 7 Explorer of the Depths: Sigmund Freud -- The Truth About Freud -- The Would-Be Neuroscientist -- The Hypnotherapist -- The Invention of Psychoanalysis -- Dynamic Psychology: Early Formulations -- Success -- Dynamic Psychology: Extensions and Revisions -- But Is It Scientific? -- Decline and Fall-and Revival -- 8 The Measurers -- "Whenever You Can, Count": Francis Galton -- Galtonian Paradoxes -- The Mental Age Approach: Alfred Binet -- The Testing Mania -- The IQ Controversy -- 9 The Behaviorists -- A New Answer to Old Questions -- Two Discoverers of the Laws of Behaviorism: Thorndike and Pavlov -- Mr. Behaviorism: John B. Watson -- The Triumph of Behaviorism -- Two Great Neobehaviorists: Hull and Skinner -- The Impending Paradigm Shift -- 10 The Gestaltists -- A Visual Illusion Gives Rise to a New Psychology -- The Rediscovery of the Mind -- The Laws of Gestalten -- Out-of-Reach Bananas and Other Problems -- Learning -- Failure and Success -- Part 3 Specialization and Synthesis -- Introduction: The Fissioning of Psychology-and the Fusion of the Psychological Sciences -- 11 The Personality Psychologists -- "The Secrets of the Hearts of Other Men" -- The Fundamental Units of Personality -- Measuring Personality -- Making Order out of Chaos -- Learned Personality -- Body, Genes, and Personality -- Late Word from the Personality Front -- 12 The Developmentalists -- "Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow" -- Grand Theory and Nontheory -- A Giant, and a Giant Theory -- Cognitive Development -- Maturation -- Personality Development -- Social Development -- Development from A to Z -- 13 The Social Psychologists -- No Man's Land -- A Case of Multiple Fatherhood -- Closed Cases: Cognitive Dissonance, the Psychology of Imprisonment, Obedience, the Bystander Effect -- Ongoing Inquiries: Conflict Resolution, Attribution, Others -- The Value of Social Psychology -- 14 The Perception Psychologists -- Interesting Questions -- Styles of Looking at Looking -- Seeing Form -- Seeing Movement -- Seeing Depth -- Two Ways of Looking at Vision -- 15 The Emotion and Motivation Psychologists -- Fundamental Question -- Somatic Theory -- ANS and CNS Theory -- Cognitive Theory -- Patchwork Quilt -- 16 The Cognitivists -- Revolution -- Revolution No. 2 -- Memory -- Language -- Reasoning -- Is the Mind a Computer? Is a Computer a Mind? -- New Model -- And the Winner Is- -- 17 The Psychotherapists -- Growth Industry -- Freud's Offspring: The Dynamic Psychotherapists -- The Patient as Laboratory Animal: Behavior Therapy -- All in the Mind: Cognitive Therapy -- A Miscellany of Therapies -- But Does It Really Work? -- 18 Users and Misusers of Psychology -- Knowledge Is Power -- Improving the Human Use of the Human Equipment -- Improving the Fit Between Humans and Their Jobs -- The Use and Misuse of Testing -- Covert Persuasion: Advertising and Propaganda -- Psychology in the Courtroom -- Beyond the Fringe -- 19 Psychology Today -- Portrait of a Psychologist -- Portrait of a Science -- Schism -- Psychology and Politics -- Status Report -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.Prologue: Exploring the universe within -- Prescientific psychology. The conjecturers ; The scholars ; The protopsychologists -- Founders of a new science. The physicalists ; First among equals : Wundt ; The psychologist malgré lui : William James ; Explorer of the depths : Sigmund Freud ; The measurers ; The behaviorists ; The gestaltists -- Specialization and synthesis. Introduction: The fissioning of psychology - and the fusion of the psychological sciences ; The personality psychologists ; The developmentalists ; The social psychologists ; The perception psychologists ; The emotion and motivation psychologists ; The cognitivists ; The psychotherapists ; Users and misusers of psychology ; Psychology today.