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Dr. Georg Eckardt war Professor für Psychologie an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (im Ruhestand).

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology -- The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology / Wertheimer, Michael -- Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation / Scheerer, Eckart -- The Importance of Rousseau's Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology / Mitzenheim, Paul -- The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology / Jaeger, Siegfried -- The Concept of Development in Herder's Philosophical Anthropology / Schmidt, Hans-Dieter -- The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology / Staeuble, Irmingard -- Victor de l'Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy / Métraux, Alexandre -- The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C.G. Carus / Köhler, Ursula -- Charles Darwin's Unpublished "Diary of an Infant": An Early Phase in his Psychological Work / Keegan , Robert T. / Grober, Howard E. -- Hermann Lotze's Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States / Woodward, William R. -- Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer / Bringmann, Wolfgang G. / Bringmann, Norma J. / Balance, William D.G. -- Part II: William T. Preyer - His Time, His Work, and His Influence -- Preyer's Road to Child Psychology / Eckardt, Georg -- Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records / Cavanaugh, John C. -- The Relationship Between Preyer's Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin's Theory of Evolution / Tobach, Ethel -- Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist / Sprung , Helga / Sprung, Lothar -- Preyer and the German School Reform Movement / Jaeger, Siegfried -- Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology / Dixon , Roger A. / Lerner, Richard M. -- Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ancestral Immanence / Lowry, Richard -- William Preyer's Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany / Fritsche , Christina / Ortmann, Frank -- Part III: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development -- Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science / Tweney, Ryan D. -- William James' Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science / Richards, Robert J. -- The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology / Danziger, Kurt -- The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology / Behrens, Peter J. -- The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka / Ash, Mitchell G. -- The Role of Film in John B.Watson's Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences / Harris, Benjamin -- Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology / Wohlwill, Joachim F. -- The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila / Jääskeläinen, Manu -- Epilogue -- About the Authors -- Index -- Backmatter