Foundations Of Psychological Thought: History Of Psychology

Description: This annotated reader for undergraduate courses in the history of psychology exposes students to original, primary materials but includes several unique features that will make the original sources much more accessible, including thematic organization of readings that demonstrate how thinking on major psychological issues evolved. Contemporary as well as historical readings, bring students right up to the present. Introductions and extensive annotations set the context for students and guide them in navigating sometimes complex ideas to help them get the most out of reading the original sources. A Further Reading section and, ideas and study questions to help students reinforce understanding of the excerpts. Review: 'Through carefully selected and extensively annotated original sources, Foundations of Psychological Thought deals with some of the most important issues and ideas in the history of psychological thought.' -- Savannah Jones 20080922 'A wonderful resource collection of 'original source material.' I appreciate the cluster of readings by topic as well as the date.' -- James Uchtenberg 20081118 Table of Contents: PART 1: THE MIND AND THE BODY 1.1 Rene Descartes (1596--1650) - The Passions of the Soul (1649) 1.2 William James (1842--1910) - Psychology (1892) 1.3 Wilhelm Wundt (1832--1920) - Outlines of Psychology (1897) 1.4 Alan Turing (1912--1954) - Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) 1.5 John Searle (b. 1932) - Minds, Brains, and Science (1984) PART 2: PERCEIVING 2.1 George Berkeley (1685--1753) - An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709) 2.2 Thomas Reid (1710--1796) - Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) 2.3 Hermann von Helmholtz (1821--1894) - Treatise on Physiological Optics (1867) 2.4 J. J. Gibson (1904--1979) - The Perception of the Visual World (1950) 2.5 David Marr (1945--1980) - Visual Information Processing: The Structure and Creation of Visual Representations (1980) PART 3: OPENING THE BLACK BOX 3.1 F. C. Donders (1818--1889) - On the Speed of Mental Processes (1868--1869) 3.2 E. B. Titchener (1867--1927) - An Outline of Psychology (1896) 3.3 Sigmund Freud (1856--1939) - Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) 3.4 Herbert Simon (1916--2001) and Kenneth Kotovsky (b. 1939) - Human Acquisition of Concepts for Sequential Patterns (1963) 3.5 B. F. Skinner (1904--1990) - About Behaviorism (1974) 3.6 Michael I. Posner (b. 1936), Steven F. Petersen (b. 1952), Peter T. Fox (b. 1951), and Marcus E. Raichle (b. 1937) - Localization of Cognitive Operations in the Human Brain (1988) PART 4: NATIVISM AND EMPIRICISM aka HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT 4.1 Rene Descartes (1596--1650) - Notes Directed Against a Certain Programme (1648) 4.2 John Locke (1632--1704) - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) 4.3 Charles Darwin (1809--1882) - The Origin of Species (1859) 4.4 Hermann von Helmholtz (1821--1894) - The Facts of Perception (1878) 4.5 Sigmund Freud (1856--1939) - Instincts and Their Vicissitudes (1915) 4.6 John Watson (1878--1958) - What the Nursery Has to Say About Instincts (1926) 4.7 Keller Breland (1915--1965) and Marian Breland (1920--2001) - The Misbehavior of Organisms (1961) 4.8 Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) - Language and Mind (1968) PART 5: LEVELS OF EXPLANATION 5.1 Max Wertheimer (1880--1943) - Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms (1923) 5.2 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849--1936) - Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex (1927) 5.3 Kurt Lewin (1890--1947) - Experiments in Social Space (1939) 5.4 Edward Chace Tolman (1886--1959) - Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men (1948) 5.5 Donald Hebb (1904--1985) - Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory (1949) 5.6 Brenda Milner (b. 1918), Larry R. Squire (b. 1941), and Eric R. Kandel (b. 1929) - Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory (1998) PART 6: NORMAL & ABNORMAL 6.1 Benjamin Rush (1746--1813) - Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812) 6.2 Henry J. Wegrocki (1909--1967) - A Critique of Cultural and Statistical Concepts of Abnormality (1939) 6.3 Karen Horney (1885--1952) - Neurosis and Human Growth (1950) 6.4 Evelyn Hooker (1907--1996) - The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual (1957) 6.5 Thomas S. Szasz (b. 1920) - The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) 6.6 Samuel B. Guze (1923--2000) - Biological Psychiatry: Is There Any Other Kind? (1989) 6.7 Corey L. M. Keyes (b. 1962) - The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life (2002) Author Biography: Barbara F. Gentile (Ph.D., Cornell) is a social psychologist. She is Associate Professor of psychology and Chairperson of the department at Simmons College, where she teaches courses in personality theory, social psychology, social psychology research methodology, and the history of psychology. Her research interests include non-verbal behavior, survey research methodology, and the teaching of psychology. Ben Miller (Ph.D., City University of New York) is an experimental psychologist. He is Assistant Professor of psychology at Salem State College, where he teaches courses in perception, memory, the history of psychology, and statistics and methods. He is author of Beyond Statistics: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis (Allyn & Bacon, 2001). His current research focus is on basic questions about false memories, such as they conditions in which they occur and our ability to distinguish them from true memories.