Theories of evolution in 19th century

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Theories of evolution in 19th century
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
The Origins of Species by Natural Selection (1859)
Life force environment
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
Natural selection/ survival fittest
Continuity theory
Man-animal studies Anthropomorphism
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Biogenetic law
Objectifying
Integration and differentiation
Individual development repeats species development
Individual differences
Ernst Haeckel
Francis Galton
Behaviorism
Eugenics
Developmental psychology
More Nurture
More Nature
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From philosophy of consciousness to psychology of
consciousness
Descartes
Rationalism
Wolff/ Leibniz
Faculties
Kant
Transcendental philosophy Mind sets conditions
for acquiring knowledge
Hegel
Romantic nature philosophy

Experiment
Introspection Analysis consciousness through
inner observation Arm chair psychology
Geist
Physiology
Fechner (Psychophysics)
Helmholtz (unconscious reasoning)
Wilhelm Wundt
Voelker psychology Humanities Non-experimental
Physiological stimuli in relation to consciousness
Physiological stimuli as experimental control of
introspection
Research into simple functions
Complex functions
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Behaviorism
Practical focus US universities
Functionalism Mind useful in struggle for
survival
Theory of evolution
19th cent Brain physiology
William James (1842-1910)
Pavlov
Functionalist animal psychology Behavior function
of stimuli
Classical conditioning
Behaviorism
Thorndike
John Watson (1878-1958) 'Psychology as the
behaviorist views it'.
Metaphysical behaviorism
No consciousness
Behavior object psychology
stimulus response
Learning
Burrhus Skinner (1904-1992)
Clark Hull (1884-1952)
Methodological behaviorism
Edward Tolman (1886-1959)
Operant conditoning Descriptive behaviorism
Cognitive maps
Drives
Round 1960 Crisis behaviorism
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive revolution