Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology: International William T. Preyer Symposium

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 Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant”: An Early Phase in his Psychological Work • Robert T. Keegan and Howard E. Gruber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