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New Babylon Studies in the Social Sciences 44 MOUTON PUBLISHERS · BERLIN · NEW YORK • AMSTERDAM William Τ Preyer (1841-1897) Contributions To A History Of Developmental Psychology International William T. Preyer Symposium Edited by Georg Eckardt, Wolfgang G. Bringmann and Lothar Sprung With a Foreword by Urie Bronfenbrenner and a Preface by Karl-Friedrich Wessel MOUTON PUBLISHERS · BERLIN · NEW YORK · AMSTERDAM CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Contributions to a history of developmental psychology / Internat. William T. Preyer Symposium. Ed. by Georg Eckardt ... With a foreword by Urie Bronfenbrenner and a pref. by Karl-Friedrich Wessel. — Berlin ; New York ; Amsterdam ; Mouton, 1985. (New Babylon ; 44) ISBN 3-11-009977-2 Pb. ISBN 3-11-009976-4 Gewebe NE: Eckardt, Georg [Hrsg.]; International William T. Preyer Symposium (1982, Jena); GT Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data International William T. Preyer Symposium (1982 : Jena, Germany) Contributions to a history of developmental psychology. (New Babylon, studies in the social sciences ; 44) Includes indexes. 1. Developmental psychology—History—Congresses. 2. Preyer, William T., 1841-1897—Congresses. I. Eckardt, Georg. II. Bringmann, Wolfgang G. III. Sprung, Lothar. IV. Title. BF712.5.I56 1982 155 84-27281 ISBN 0-89925-044-0 ISBN 0-89925-045-9 (pbk.) Printed on acid free paper © Copyright 1985 by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form — by photoprint, microfilm, or any other means — nor transmitted nor translated into a machine language without written permission from the publisher. — Typesetting: Satz-Rechen-Zentrum, Berlin. — Printing: Druckerei Gerike GmbH, Berlin. — Binding: Dieter Mikolai, Berlin. Printed in Germany. Contents Frontispiece: William T. Preyer (1841-1897) List of Contributors VIII Foreword Urie Bronfenbrenner 1 Preface Karl-Friedrich Wessel 4 Acknowledgments 7 Prologue Lothar Sprung, Wolfgang G. Bringmann and Georg Eckardt 8 Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology 1. The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology Michael Wertheimer 13 2. Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation Eckart Scheerer 27 3. The Importance of Rousseau's Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology Paul Mitzenheim 55 4. The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmen- tal Psychology Siegfried Jaeger 63 5. The Concept of Development in Herder's Philo- sophical Anthropology Hans-Dieter Schmidt 75 6. The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psy- chology Irmingard Staeuhle 89 7. Victor de l'Aveyron and the Relativist-Essential- ist Controversy Alexandre Métraux 101 VI Contents 8. The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C. G. Carus Ursula Köhler 117 9. Charles Darwin's Unpublished "Diary of an In- fant" : An Early Phase in his Psychological Work Robert T. Keegan and Howard E. Gruber 127 .10. Hermann Lotze's Concept of Function: Its Kan- tian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States William R. Woodward 147 11. Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psy- chology before William Preyer Wolfgang G. Bringmann, Norma J. Bringmann and William D. G. Balance 157 Part II: William T. Preyer - His Time, His Work and His Influ- ence 12. Preyer's Road to Child Psychology Georg Eckardt 177 13. Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records John C. Cavanaugh 187 14. The Relationship Between Preyer's Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ethel Tobach 209 15. Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist Helga Sprung and Lothar Sprung 219 16. Preyer and the German School Reform Move- ment Siegfried Jaeger 231 17. Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology Roger A. Dixon and Richard M. Lerner 245 18. Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ances- tral Immanence Richard Lowry 267 Contents VII 19. William Preyer's Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany Christina Fritsche and Frank Ortmann 275 Part III:Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development 20. Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Cen- tury German Science Ryan D. Tweney 283 21. William James' Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychologi- cal Science Robert J. Richards 301 22. The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Mod- els in Early Developmental Psychology Kurt Danziger 319 23. The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychol- ogy Peter J. Behrens 329 24. The Role of Developmental Concepts in the His- tory of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka Mitchell G. Ash 341 25. The Role of Film in John B. Watson's Develop- mental Research Program: Intellectual, Discipli- nary, and Social Influences Benjamin Harris 359 26. Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Envi- ronmental Child Psychology Joachim F. Wohlwill 367 27. The Idea of Development in the Writings of Ei- no Kaila Manu Jääskeläinen 375 Epilogue Helga Sprung 389 About the Authors 393 Index 401 List of Contributors Mitchel G. Ash, Ph. D. Kurt Danziger, D. Phil. Assistant Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Psychology History, York University, Downsview, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Ontario, Canada USA Roger Dixon, Ph. D. William D. G. Balance, Ph. D. Research Scientist, Max Planck Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute for Human Development, University of Windsor, Windsor, Onta- Berlin, FRG rio, Canada Georg Eckardt, Dr. sc. phil. Peter}. Behrens, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Division of Psy- Assistant Professor of Psychology, chology, Pennsylvania State University, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, (Allentown Campus), Fogelsville, Jena, GDR Pennsylvania, USA Christina Pritsche, Dr. phil. Research Associate, Karl-Sudhoff Norma J. Bringmann, Β. Α. Institute for the History of Medicine, Research Associate Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig, GDR Mobile, Alabama USA Howard E. Gruber, Ph. D. Wolfgang G. Bringmann, Ph. D. Professor, Division of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Génève, Geneva, Switzer- University of South Alabama, land; Mobile, Alabama, USA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J., USA Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ph. D. Professor, Department of Human De- Ben Harris, Ph. D. velopment and Family Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of Cornell University, Ithaca, Ν. Y., USA Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., USA John C. Cavanaugh, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Manu V. Jääskeläinen, Ph. D. Psychology, Chief of Educational Affairs, Bowling Green State University, Finnish Medical Association, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA Helsinki, Finland List of Contributors IX Siegfried Jaeger, Dr. phil. Robert Richards, Ph. D. Research Associate, Psychological In- Associate Professor, History of Science, stitute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Freie-Universität-Berlin, FRG USA Robert T. Keegan, M. A. Eckardt Scheerer, Dr. phil. Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Pace University, Kearny, New Jersey, Universität Oldenburg, USA Oldenburg, FRG Ursula Köhler; Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Dieter Schmidt, Dr. sc. nat. Professor Emeritus, Department of Professor, Division of Psychology, Labor Science, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, GDR Dresden, GDR Richard M'. Lemer, Ph. D. Helga Sprung, Dr. rer. nat. Professor, College of Human Devel- Research Scientist, Berlin, GDR opment, Pennsylvania State University, Lothar Sprung, Dr. sc. nat. University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Assistant Professor, Division of Psy- chology, Richard Lowry, Ph. D. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Professor and Head, Department of Berlin, GDR Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA Irmingard Staeuble, Dr. phil. Professor, Psychological Institute, Freie-Universität-Berlin, Berlin, FRG Alexandre Métraux, Dr. phil. Research Scientist, Psychological Insti- Ethel Tobach, Ph. D. tute, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Professor and Curator, Comparative FRG Psychology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA Paul Mitzenheim, Dr. sc. paed. Professor, Division of Education, Ryan Tweney, Ph. D. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Professor, Department of Psychology, Jena, GDR Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA Frank Ortmann, Dr. med. Research Associate, Ernst-Haeckel- Michael Wertheimer, Ph. D. Haus, Professor, Department of Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, University of Colorado, GDR Boulder, Colorado, USA
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