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 -- Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation -- The Importance of Rousseau's Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology -- The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology -- The Concept of Development in Herder's Philosophical Anthropology -- The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology -- Victor de l'Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy -- The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C.G. Carus -- Charles Darwin's Unpublished "Diary of an Infant": An Early Phase in his Psychological Work -- Hermann Lotze's Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States -- Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer -- Part II: William T. Preyer - His Time, His Work, and His Influence -- Preyer's Road to Child Psychology -- Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records -- The Relationship Between Preyer's Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist -- Preyer and the German School Reform Movement -- Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology -- Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ancestral Immanence -- William Preyer's Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany -- Part III: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development -- Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science -- William James' Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science -- The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology -- The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology -- The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka -- The Role of Film in John B.Watson's Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences -- Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology -- The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila -- Epilogue -- About the Authors -- Index -- Backmatter