History of Psychology 2008

History of Psychology
Psychology 414

Fall 2008

This is an ADVANCED course if taken for the Psychology Major. For the course to count as an advanced course in the major, you need to have had the prerequisites — 5 courses in psychology.
Instructor
William M. Mace

E-Mail: william.mace@trincoll.edu

Required Reading

• All on line

• Archives of the History of Psychology
• Two of the early journals to publish articles that became important in the history of psychology are the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods (begins in 1904) and Mind (begins in 1876). The Trinity library has access to electronic versions of both of these going back to their very first issues. I cannot put a direct link to them on the syllabus. To get them, you need to go first to the Trinity Library, which is linked here, then search the catalogue for the journal. Once you have found the entry in the catalogue, you’ll see that one of the listings is for the JSTOR electronic version. Then you can click on that and open the door to a resource that was much more difficult to look at in the past.
• PsycInfo. The main database for articles in psychology.
• Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. A main journal specializing in history, mostly of psychology. Just type in the name of the journal in the Trinity catalogue listing on the library home page. Indicate that it is a journal title. Electronically available from 1989. Older issues are in hard copy on the C Floor of the library.
• The American Psychological Association. This page (past the Home page) lists the Divisions of the APA, to show you just how many subdivisions there are in American psychology. Under “More info” at Divisions 4 and 11, you can get a brief history of various divisions.
• The Association for Psychological Science. Why does this organization exist?

Classics in Psychology
Huge archive of online books and articles. Indispensable for this course

Autobiographies available immediately on the Web

Schedule of Classes
DATE	READING FOR CLASS	TOPIC DESCRIPTION
Class 1	Our course “map” If you don’t see this open, check your Downloads and open in Excel.Questions to answer for Friday	Introduction to the course
Class 2	Reading: Darnton on “News” Read Section 1. Boring & Boring — Masters and Pupils article. American Journal of Psychology, 1948, 61, 527-534 JSTOR Boring — The Psychology of Controversy Allport (1939) Review of 50 years of research	What Darnton says about news is like written history. Remember that there is considerable distance between what all really happens and what is later reported.TURN IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY 3 pm
Class 3 September 8		Add/Drop Period ends tomorrowMathematical proof and existence
Class 4	Current Lakoff An earlier follower, then semi-rival of Chomsky.Weimer — Plato and Chomsky Psycholinguistics and Plato’s Paradoxes of the Meno. American Psychologist, 1973, 28, 15-33. Meno Proof in Meno with diagrams	Plato and rationalism. Thinking about mathematical reasoning and mathematical “objects.”
Class 5	Weimer; Meno	Major aspects of Plato — essence, primacy of the abstract, anamnesis
Class 6	Weimer	Learning on the first instance; a little Aristotle
Class 7	Required reading:Summary of Kuhn by Emory ProfessorBlumenthal, Arthur (1975). A reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt. American Psychologist, 30, 1081 – 1088.	Kuhn — Normal science, paradigms, and revolutions
Class 8	Read: Aristotle’s Psychology	Aristotle — Nominalism, 4 causes, teleology
Class 9	Begin Descartes	Rationalism, Mechanism, Mind-Body dualism
Class 10	Meditation 1Meditation 6	Class participation on Descartes. Be ready with your paragraph of Meditation 6 by Descartes.
Class 11	Continue Meditation 6	Last day to withdraw from classesSecond half of class presentations commenting on paragraphs from Meditation 6 Paper topic due
Class 12	Locke intro	British empiricism 1Primary and secondary qualities
Class 13	Read: Locke on qualities Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book II, Chapter 8, Section 8. Locke on External Existence Essay — Book IV, Chapter 11. Berkeley – Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Sections 1-5, 8-11, 14-15, 18-20, 23-30, 33-34, 36, 42-45, 48, 58.	Locke and Berkeley
Class 14	Hume Treatise of Human Nature. Vol. I, Part IV, Section 2.Mill on the “permanent possibility of sensations” in Chapter XI of An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy.	Hume and MillOct. 6-7 Trinity Days WORK ON PAPERS
Class 15	Hume Treatise of Human Nature. Vol. I, Part IV, Section 2.Mill on the “permanent possibility of sensations” in Chapter XI of An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy.	More Berkeley discussion; “objects” consist of bundles of associated experiences (secondary qualities). The distinction between primary and secondary qualities disappears in Berkeley. All are like secondary qualities.
Class 16	Kant reading	Mill and Kant
Class 17	Wozniak on mind and brain Read: Section I	“Brain” people. Note Gall,
Class 18	Wozniak on mind and brain Read: Sections II and IIIOutline from Boring Look ahead to Francis Crick’s Astonishing Hypothesis. One review.	Especially Fechner, Helmholtz, Müller
Psychology “proper”
Class 19	Read: Introduction to Wundt’s major work by Rob Wozniak	WundtFull 500 word Proposal plus complete bibliography Due
Class 20	Read:Wundt intro in the Classics Paper about Urban at Trinity — On Blackboard	College Mid Term
Darwin, James and Functionalism
Class 21	Read: Darwin Introduction, and “The Struggle for Existence” Wozniak on Galton Introduction to Galton’s Hereditary Genius Note that this is from the Website, Galton.org. Check it out.	Darwin
Class 22		Galton
Class 23	Read: Taylor and Wozniak on James James — The Stream of Consciousness James’ essay of pure experience; his ‘radical empiricism.’	William James
Class 24	Read: Hall on the traditions of Psychology in the U.S. prior to the “new psychology.” Hall on the “new psychology.” James on Pragmatism	Filling in some James. He was definitely influential with respect to pragmatism.G. Stanley Hall’s interpretation of the history at the time.
Class 25	Read: Diehl American Psychologist, 1986, Vol. 41, 868-878. Shields, American Psychologist, 1975, Vol. 30, 739 – 754.	Paradoxes in G. Stanley Hall (first article.)Functionalism, Darwinism & Psych of Women — second article.
Behaviorism
Class 26	Read: James McKeen Cattell on “Mental” testing	Advising Week Nov. 3-7Cattell theory and data, then: What Wissler’s data said
Class 27	Read: Christopher Green on Watson Rob Wozniak on Watson Watson’s Classic 1913 paper Baars, pp. 19 – 84 Chapter 2. On Blackboard.	Behaviorism
Class 28		Behaviorism discussion
Gestalt Psychology
Class 29	Gestalt Readings. You may omit the autobiography of Stumpf.	Gestalt Psychology
Class 30	Continue above, especially Köhler	More highlights of Gestalt Psychology
Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis Clinical and Applied Psychology
Class 31	Read: Psychoanalysis arrives in America: The 1909 psychology conference at Clark University. American Psychologist, 1985, 40, 942 – 948. Freud — First lecture on psychoanalysis at Clark University. American Journal of Psychology, 1910,21, 181 – 218. Electronically in JSTOR. Hornstein — The Return of the Repressed. American Psychologist, 1992, 47, 254 – 263. Witmer	Freud and Clinical Psychology
Class 32	Our course “map”. Encore.	A little Freud, a little Witmer; then review where we’ve been to consolidate the content
Class 33	Continuing Excel summary	Review of issues, focusing on role of experience. Can there be a novel experience?
Social Issues in U.S. Psychology’s History
Class 34	Ladd-Franklin on Endowed Professorships for Women Also review Oct. 31 readings from Hall.Finally — Note that the Classics link has a topic section on women and the history of Psychology	Women in Psychology
Class 35	Solomon Carter FullerClark interview covering Sumner	Race in U. S. Psychology
Psychology Today — The Advent of Cognitive Psychology
Class 36	Readings — See Jenkins interview and Chomsky interview in Baars book. Both available on Blackboard site. Also review Weimer article linked to September 10.	Second Draft of paper due Chomsky role in cognitive revolution
Class 37		Beginning the language side — Chomsky
Class 38		Beginning the language side — Chomsky
Class 39		Last Day of Classes; Last day to change pass/fail to letter grade