Reading

TEXTS:

Hunt, Morton  The Story of Psychology, Anchor, 1995
Lowry, Richard  The Evolution of Psychological Theory, Aldine, 1982

PAPERS and CHAPTERS

Allport, G.W. "Conceptions of trait and personality" Psychological Bulletin, 1927, 24, 284-273. (PsychClassics)

Angell, J.R.
"The province of functional psychology", Psychological Review, 1907. 14, 61-92 (PsychClassics)

Binet, A. New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals. L'Annee Psychologique, 12, 191-244 (translated), 1905 (PsychClassics)

Cattell, J.M. The psychological labratory at Leipsic. Mind, 1888, 13, 37-51 (PsychClassics)

Cattell, J.M. V:-Mental tests and measurements. Mind, 1890, 373-381 (PsychClassics)

Darwin, C. Chapters 1,3 The Descent of Man. London: J. Murray, 1874. (PsychClassics)

Descartes, "Descartes on rationalism, dualism, subjectivism, and mechanism" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)

Fechner, G.T. "Elements of psychophysics" Sections VII & XIV of Elements of Psychophysics. (PsychClassics)

Freud, S. "Instincts and their vicissitudes" (abridged).  (Electronic Reserve)

Haggbloom, etal. The 100 most eminent psychologists of the Twenthieth Century. Review of General Psychology, 2002, 6, 139-152. (PsychClassics)

Harris, J. "Where is the child's environment? A group socialization theory of development" Psychological Review, 1995, 102, 458-489. (On line)

Hartley, "Hartley on associations of the mind and vibrations of the body" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology. (Class Web Site)

Herbart, J.F., "Herbart on ideas as forces, the threshold of consciousness, the essential nature of mathematics, and the significance of apperception" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)

Hobbes, T. Levithan, Chapters 1-2, 5-6 (Class Web Sie)

Hull, C. A Behavior System, Chapter 1, "Introductory considerations" (Electronic Reserve)

Hume, D. "Hume on the empirical origin of ideas and association, including causality, and self", In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)

James, W. The stream of consciousness. Chapter IX Psychology Cleveland: New World (PsychClassics)

Kant, E. "Kant on the nativistic active structuring of experience, and the impossibility of a science of psychology" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)

Köhler, W. "Gestalt psychology today" American Psychologist, 1959, 14, 727-734. (PsychClassics)

Lewin, K. "Lewin on field theory and action research" in n R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)

Mill, J. & J.S., "The Mills on association and mental chemistry" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology  (Class Web Site)

Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. "A cognitive-affective theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure." Psychological Review, 1995, 102, 246-268. (on line)

Skinner, B.F. Are theories of learning necessary? Psychological Review, 1950, 57, 193-216 (PsychClassics)

Titchener, E.B. The postulates of a structural psychology, Philosophical Review, 7, 449-465 (PsychClassics)

Watson, J.B., Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review, 1913, 20, 158-177. (PsychClassics)

Wundt, W. "Wundt on the science of psychology as the experimental study of mental elements and their creative synthesis" In R.I. Watson, Basic Writings in the History of Psychology (Class Web Site)