Alfred H Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred H Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred H |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historical Articles on Edward Bradford Titchener
E. B. Titchener was a major figure in psychology in the early 20th century, especially in the United States. A British national, graduate of Oxford University with a PhD from Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt, he championed a system of psychology that emphasized the introspection of conscious experience as accessed and revealed under rigorously controlled experimental procedures. From his laboratory at Cornell University, he was the major professor for…
Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021)
Research Article| October 01 2021 Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021) Alfred H. Fuchs Alfred H. Fuchs Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journal of Psychology (2021) 134 (3): 363–364. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.3.0363 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alfred H. Fuchs; Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021). The American Journal of Psycholo…
Psychology as a Science
A scientific psychology emerged from the intellectual awakenings of the Reformation of the 16th century and of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The methods of the science of that era emphasized observation, classification of phenomena, and induction; in the 19th century, psychologists adapted laboratory experiments to the study of mind. The laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt, founded in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, symbolized the …
Laurence Binet Brown (1927–2011)
Portraits of pioneers in psychology (Vol. 5)
The course in the history of psychology
The course in the history of psychology
The present study provides a turn-of-the-century status report on the teaching of the history of psychology in colleges and universities in the United States. The data indicate that the course is offered regularly in most departments of psychology and is frequently required of majors; these findings are consistent with earlier research. Most instructors teach the course largely out of personal interest and self-taught expertise with their primary…
Teaching the introductory course in psychology circa 1900
Teachers of introductory courses in psychology and those who wrote the textbooks for the courses at the start of the 20th century represented the new psychology that replaced the old psychology of mental philosophy. Teachers and texts presented psychology as a natural science of the mind and mental processes, described its methods, and suggested its potential applications to practical concerns. Textbooks and teachers varied in their approaches to…
Teaching the introductory course in psychology circa 1900
Contributions of American mental philosophers to psychology in the United States
Contributions of American mental philosophers to psychology in the United States
Professors of mental philosophy who taught and wrote textbooks in colleges and universities in the United States before the Civil War contributed significantly to the development of the new psychology that replaced mental philosophy in the last quarter of the 19th century. Their contributions have been neglected in textbooks on the history of psychology, even those devoted to the history of psychology in the United States. These mental philosophe…
"Psychology and "The Babe
Psychologists and baseball players were among those Americans who formed professional associations in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Psychologists used laboratory tasks to quantify mental and behavioral processes while sportswriters and baseball organizers measured individual and team performance. The most popular baseball player of the 1920s, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, possessed superior batting skills that were evident in the stati…
A factor analysis of ratings of five schools of psychology on prescriptive dimensions
Prescriptive dimensions for five schools of psychology
Early experimental psychology in New Zealand
Resistance to Extinction of a Generalized Response as a Function of Stimulus and Amount-of-Reward Conditions during Training
Student reactions to topics in general psychology
The course in the history of psychology
The present study provides a turn-of-the-century status report on the teaching of the history of psychology in colleges and universities in the United States. The data indicate that the course is offered regularly in most departments of psychology and is frequently required of majors; these findings are consistent with earlier research. Most instructors teach the course largely out of personal interest and self-taught expertise with their primary…
Contributions of American mental philosophers to psychology in the United States
Professors of mental philosophy who taught and wrote textbooks in colleges and universities in the United States before the Civil War contributed significantly to the development of the new psychology that replaced mental philosophy in the last quarter of the 19th century. Their contributions have been neglected in textbooks on the history of psychology, even those devoted to the history of psychology in the United States. These mental philosophe…
Student reactions to topics in general psychology
Resistance to Extinction of a Generalized Response as a Function of Stimulus and Amount-of-Reward Conditions during Training
Early experimental psychology in New Zealand
A factor analysis of ratings of five schools of psychology on prescriptive dimensions
Prescriptive dimensions for five schools of psychology
"Psychology and "The Babe
Psychologists and baseball players were among those Americans who formed professional associations in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Psychologists used laboratory tasks to quantify mental and behavioral processes while sportswriters and baseball organizers measured individual and team performance. The most popular baseball player of the 1920s, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, possessed superior batting skills that were evident in the stati…
Teaching the introductory course in psychology circa 1900
Teachers of introductory courses in psychology and those who wrote the textbooks for the courses at the start of the 20th century represented the new psychology that replaced the old psychology of mental philosophy. Teachers and texts presented psychology as a natural science of the mind and mental processes, described its methods, and suggested its potential applications to practical concerns. Textbooks and teachers varied in their approaches to…
Teaching the introductory course in psychology circa 1900
Contributions of American mental philosophers to psychology in the United States
Contributions of American mental philosophers to psychology in the United States
Professors of mental philosophy who taught and wrote textbooks in colleges and universities in the United States before the Civil War contributed significantly to the development of the new psychology that replaced mental philosophy in the last quarter of the 19th century. Their contributions have been neglected in textbooks on the history of psychology, even those devoted to the history of psychology in the United States. These mental philosophe…
The course in the history of psychology
The course in the history of psychology
The present study provides a turn-of-the-century status report on the teaching of the history of psychology in colleges and universities in the United States. The data indicate that the course is offered regularly in most departments of psychology and is frequently required of majors; these findings are consistent with earlier research. Most instructors teach the course largely out of personal interest and self-taught expertise with their primary…
Portraits of pioneers in psychology (Vol. 5)
Psychology as a Science
A scientific psychology emerged from the intellectual awakenings of the Reformation of the 16th century and of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The methods of the science of that era emphasized observation, classification of phenomena, and induction; in the 19th century, psychologists adapted laboratory experiments to the study of mind. The laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt, founded in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, symbolized the …
Laurence Binet Brown (1927–2011)
Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021)
Research Article| October 01 2021 Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021) Alfred H. Fuchs Alfred H. Fuchs Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journal of Psychology (2021) 134 (3): 363–364. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.3.0363 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alfred H. Fuchs; Rand Boyd Evans (1942–2021). The American Journal of Psycholo…
Historical Articles on Edward Bradford Titchener
E. B. Titchener was a major figure in psychology in the early 20th century, especially in the United States. A British national, graduate of Oxford University with a PhD from Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt, he championed a system of psychology that emphasized the introspection of conscious experience as accessed and revealed under rigorously controlled experimental procedures. From his laboratory at Cornell University, he was the major professor for…
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