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When G. Stanley Hall was appointed professor of psychology and pedagogics at Johns Hopkins University in 1884, he began the process of translating an older psychology embedded in moral philosophy into a «new psychology» resting on science. As a Williams College undergraduate, Hall learned a theistic developmental psychology from Mark Hopkins. Taking his doctorate at Harvard University ...
PDF/EPUB. G. STANLEY HALL WAS instrumental in founding psychology as a science and in its development as a profession. He is best known for his work on child development, especially adolescence, yet he also wrote a powerful treatise on the economic, social, and intellectual isolation of the elderly. Senescence, excerpted here, was the first ...
G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1844. He was an American psychologist in the field of adolescence and an educator. He focused his attention on the educational needs of adolescents. He made numerous contributions to American education in psychology, including his leadership in the child study movement and his ...
He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and the theory of evolution. Baldwin wrote essays such as “Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes,” which made a vivid impression on Jean Piaget (who later developed the most popular theory of cognitive development) and Lawrence Kohlberg (who ...
Feb 1, 1992 · Hall's major religious contribution, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, serves as a focal point. Other contributions briefly examined include Hall's sexual theory of conversion and his ...
The place of G. Stanley Hall within the history of psychology is both assured and problematic. While he is credited with significant contributions, those contributions are predominantly institutional rather than intellectual or scientific in nature. Further compounding the issue is the fact that tho …
Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 3, August 2006 about the historical context of G. Stanley Hall's book "Adolescence"; the role of reading, speaking, and writing in his psychological work; sex-segregated schooling; and his contribution to science, practice and policy.
