Table of Contents
Preface.
New to the Third Edition.
Acknowledgments.
1 Historiography – Asking and Answering Historical Questions.
2 Philosophical and Physiological Roots of Modern Psychology.
On Simple and Complex Ideas: John Locke (1690).
Tabula Rasa – Its Origins and Implications: Nicholas Petryszak (1981).
A System of Logic: John Stuart Mill (1843).
On the Speech Center: Paul Broca (1861).
Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance: The Work of Paul Broca: Stanley Finger (1994).
3 Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of Scientific Psychology.
Psychical Elements and Compounds: Wilhelm Wundt (1896).
A Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt: Arthur L. Blumenthal (1975).
Wundt as Chemist? A Fresh Look at his Practice and Theory of Experimentation: Henning Schmidgen (2003).
4 Origins of Scientific Psychology in America.
The Stream of Thought: William James (1890).
William James and the Art of Human Understanding: David E. Leary (1992).
Tests of the Senses and Faculties: James McKeen Cattell (1893).
James McKeen Cattell and the Failure of Anthropometric Mental Testing, 1890–1901: Michael M. Sokal (1982).
The Psychology Laboratory at the Turn of the 20th Century: Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. (2000).
Psychological Instruments at the Turn of the Century: Rand B. Evans (2000).
5 Structuralism and Functionalism.
The Method and Scope of Psychology: Edward Bradford Titchener (1910).
The Mistaken Mirror: On Wundt’s and Titchener’s Psychologies: Thomas H. Leahey (1981).
The Province of Functional Psychology: James Rowland Angell (1907).
Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth: Stephanie A. Shields (1975).
6 Birth of the New Applied Psychology.
Clinical Psychology: Lightner Witmer (1907).
The Clinical Psychology of Lightner Witmer: A Case Study of Institutional Innovation and Intellectual Change: John M. O’Donnell (1979).
Tentative Suggestions for the Certification of Practicing Psychologists: Leta S. Hollingworth (1918).
Practicing School Psychology: A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective: Thomas K. Fagan (2000).
The Influence of Caffein on Mental and Motor Efficiency: Harry Hollingworth (1912).
Coca-Cola, Caffeine, and Mental Deficiency: Harry S. Hollingworth and the Chattanooga Trial of 1911: Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., Anne Rogers, and Angela Rosenbaum (1991).
7 Psychoanalysis.
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (1910).
The Return of the Repressed: Psychology’s Problematic Relations with Psychoanalysis, 1909–1960: Gail A. Hornstein (1992).
Snapshots of Freud in America, 1899–1999: Raymond E. Fancher (2000).
8 Behaviorism and Neobehaviorism.
Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It: John B. Watson (1913).
Struggle for Scientific Authority: The Reception of Watson’s Behaviorism, 1913–1920: Franz Samelson (1981).
A System of Behavior: B. F. Skinner (1938).
B. F. Skinner’s Technology of Behavior in American Life: From Consumer Culture to Counterculture: Alexandra Rutherford (2003).
9 The New Profession of Psychology.
Professional Training in the Light of a Changing Science and Society (excerpt from the Boulder Report): Victor Raimy (1950).
The Affirmation of the Scientist–Practitioner: A Look Back at Boulder: David Baker and Ludy Benjamin, Jr. (2000).
The Boulder Model’s Fatal Flaw: George W. Albee (2000).
The Boulder Model: A Dream Deferred – Or Lost?: Peter E. Nathan (2000).
The Scientist–Practitioner Model: Gandhi Was Right Again: George Stricker (2000).
10 A Psychology of Social Change: Race and Gender.
The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation: A Social Science Statement: Kenneth B. Clark, Isidor Chein, and Stuart W. Cook (1952).
Kenneth B. Clark in the Patterns of American Culture: Ben Keppel (2002).
The Mental Traits of Sex: Helen Bradford Thompson [Woolley] (1903).
Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children: Leta S. Hollingworth (1916).
he First Generation of Women Psychologists and the Psychology of Women: Katharine S. Milar (2000).
11 Cognitive Psychology.
Gestalt Theory: Max Wertheimer (1924).
A Theory of Remembering: Frederic C. Bartlett (1932).
Origins of the Cognitive (R)evolution: George Mandler (2002).
References.
Index.
