Ecological Psychology and Homeokinetics

Psychology 414
History of Psychology

Spring 2003

Reading List

• Autobiography
  • Boring, E.G. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 4.
  • Boring, E.G. & Lindzey, G. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Vo1ume 5.
  • Boring, E.G. Psychologist at Large.
  • Lindzey, G. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 6.
  • Lindzey, G. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 7.
  • Murchison, Carl. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 1.
  • Murchison, Carl. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 2.
  • Murchison, Carl. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 3.
  • Skinner, B.F. Particulars of my life.
  • Skinner, B.F. The Shaping of a Behaviorist.
• Biography
  • Buckley, K. Mechanical Man. (Watson)
  • Cohen David J. B. Watson: The Founder of Behaviourism.
  • Hale, Matthew. Human Science and Social Order (Munsterberg).
  • Hearnshaw, L.S. Cyril Burt, Psychologist.
  • Jonç ich, G. The Sane Positivist (E.L. Thorndike)
  • Mills, Eugene. George Trumbull Ladd
  • Reed, E. S. James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception.
  • Ross, D. G. Stanley Hall.
  • Seagoe, May Violet. Terman and the Gifted.
  • Sokal, M. The education and psychological career of James McKeen Cattell.
• General
  • Lapointe, F. Origin and Evolution of the term “Psychology.” American Psychologist, 1970, 25 , 640-646.
  • Weimer, W. Psycholinguistics and Plato’s Paradoxes of the Meno. American Psychologist, 1973, 28, 15-33.
• Genealogy
  • Boring, N.D. & Boring, E.G. Masters and pupils among the American psychologists. American Journal of Psychology, 1948, 61, 527-534.
  • Lubek, I., Innis, N., Kroger, R., McGuire, G., Stam, H. & Hermann, T. (1995). Faculty genealogies in five Canadian universities: Historiographical and pedagogical concerns. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 31, 52 – 72.
• Essays on People
  • Begelman, D. Review of Cohen book on Watson. Contemporary Psychology 1980, 25, 363-3~4.
  • Blumenthal, A. A reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt. American Psychologist, 1975, 1081-1088.
    Boring, E. G. Human Nature vs. Sensation: William James and the Psychology of the present. American Journal of Psychology 1942, 55, 310-327.
  • Henle, Mary. One man against the Nazis-Wolfgang Kohler, American Psychologist, 1978, 934-944.
  • Helson, H. E.G.B. The early years and change of course. American Psychologist, 1970, 25, 625-629.
  • Letters on review of Watson biography. Contemporary Psychology, 1981, 26, 62-64.
  • Moskowitz, M.J. Hugo Munsterberg – A Study in the History of Applied Psychology, American Psychologist, 1977, 824-842.
  • Sokal, Michael M. Science and James McKeen Cattell, 1894 to 1945. Science 1980 , 209, (4 July), 43-52 .
  • Stevens, S.S. Obituary of E.G. Boring. American Journal Psychology 1968, 81 , 589-606.
• Controversy
  • Boring, E.G. The Psychology of Controversy. Psychological Review, 1929, 36 , 97-121.
  • Evans, Rand B. Scott, F.J.D. The 1913 International Congress of Psychology. The American Congress That Wasn’ t. American Psychologist 1978, 711-723.
• Orientations
  • Boring, E.G. A history of introspection. Psychological Bulletin, 1953, 50, 169-189.
  • Boring, E.G. Psychology for eclectics. In Murchison, C. Psychologies of 1930.
  • Guttman, N. On Skinner and Hull. American Psychologist, 1977. 321-328.
  • Helson, H. Why did their precursors fail and the Gestalt Psychologists succeed? American Psychologist, 1969, 24 , 1006-1011.
  • Kohler, W. Gestalt Psychology Today. American Psychologist 1959, 14, 727-734.
  • Watson, J.B. Psychology as the Behaviorist views it. Psychological Review, 1913, 20, 158-177.
  • Woodward, W.R. The “discovery” of social behaviorism and social learning theory, 1870-1980.American Psychologist, 1982, 37, 396-410.
• Trends
  • McKinney, F. Fifty years of Psychology. American Psychologist, 1976, 834-842.
  • Benjamin, L.T. The Midwest Psychological Association. A history of its organization and its antecedents, 1902-1978. American Psychologist 1979, 34, 201-213. (March),
  • Benjamin, L.T. The Psychological Round Table, Revolution of 1936. American Psychologist, 1977, 542-549.
  • Boring, E.G. The Society of Experimental Psychologists, 1904-1938. American Journal of Psychology, 1938, 51, 410-423.
  • Dennis, W. Boring, E.G. The founding of the APA. American Psychologist, 1952, 1, 95-97.
  • Fernberger, W.W. The American Psychological Association, 1892-1942. Psychological Review 1943, 50, 33-60. (A few short bonus articles follow this one.)
  • Finison, L.S. Unemployment, politics, and the history of organized psychology. American Psychologist, 1976, 747-755. .
  • Langfeld, H.S. Jubilee of the Psychological Review. Psychological Review (about 1944.)
• Psychology as Experiments
  • Cartwright, D. Determinants of scientific Progress. American Psychologist, 1973, 222-231.
  • Estes, W.K. Learning. In Annual Review of Psychology, 1956.
  • Letters on O’Donnell article. American Psychologist, 1980, 35, 467-472.
  • Newell, A. You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win. In W. Chase (Ed.) Visual Information Processing.
  • O’Donnell, J.M. The crisis of experimentalism in the 1920’s. E.G. Boring and his uses of history. American Psychologist, 1979, (April) 289-295.
  • Wachtel, P.L. Investigations and its discontents. American Psychologist, 1980, 35, 399-408.
  • Tulving, E. & Madigan, S.A. Memory and verbal learning. Annual Review of Psychology 1970.
• Clinical
  • Napoli, Donald S. Architects of Adjustment: The History of the Psychological Profession in the United States.
  • Reisman, John M. A History of Clinical Psychology.
  • Sarason, S. An Asocial Psychology and a Misdirected Clinical Psychology. American Psychologist, 1981, 35, 827-836.
  • Shakow, David. Clinical Psychology as Science and Profession.
  • Watson, Robert I. A Brief History of Clinical Psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 1953, 50, 321-346.
  • Zilboorg, G. A History of Medical Psychology.
• Philosophy of Science
  • Kuhn, T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
  • Lakatos, I. & Musgrave, A. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
  • Ravetz, J. Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems.
• Reference Volumes
  • Schuyler, Robert L. (Ed.) Dictionary of American Biography.
  • Watson, Robert I. Eminent Contributors to Psychology.

History of Psychology Syllabus