Theoretical Psychology - Classic Readings

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84920-772-0
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 3152 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Psychology

Covering foundational works in theoretical psychology up to 1980, this four-volume collection is an authoritative and groundbreaking survey of the early theoretical foundations of modern psychology. Edited and introduced by a leading authority in the field, this selection tells the story of the early crises and debates that forged each major branch of psychology, from functionalism to clinical psychology. Volume One: The Origins of a Theoretical Psychology Volume Two: Theory and Method Volume Three: Major Theoretical Positions in Twentieth Century Psychology Volume Four: The Human Dilemma: Social, Developmental and Abnormal Psychology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stam, Henderikus J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: THE ORIGINS OF A THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Introduction - Henderikus Stam
PART ONE: THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY
The Psychology of Controversy - Edwin Boring
The Conceptual Focus of Some Psychological Systems - Egon Brunswik
The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology - Lee Cronbach
The Place of Theory in Science - Karl Dallenbach
That's Interesting! - Murray Davis
Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology
A Project for a Scientific Psychology - Sigmund Freud
The Logical Analysis of Psychology - Carl Hempel
Psychology and Emerging Conceptions of Knowledge as Unitary - Sigmund Koch
Theoretical Psychology 1950 - Sigmund Koch
An Overview
Wundt's Creature at Age Zero - and as Centenarian - Sigmund Koch
Some Aspects of the Institutionalization of the 'New Psychology'
The Conflict between Aristotelian and Galilean Modes of Thought in Contemporary Psychology - Kurt Lewin
The Formal Criteria of a Systematic Psychology - John McGeoch
The Current Impact of Freud upon Psychology - Gardner Murphy
The Cult of Empiricism in Psychology, and beyond - Stephen Toulmin and David Leary
The Nature of Theory Construction in Contemporary Psychology - Kenneth Spence
Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished - Ruth Tolman
VOLUME TWO: THEORY AND METHOD
PART ONE: PSYCHOPHYSICS
Psychophysical Analysis - Louis Thurstone
The Direct Estimation of Sensory Magnitudes-Loudness - Stanley Stevens
Is There a Sensory Threshold? - John Swets
PART TWO: MEASUREMENT
A Theory of Data - Clyde Coombs
Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks - Paul Meehl
Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology
Measurement Scales and Statistics - Joel Michell
A Clash of Paradigms
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests - Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl
The Fallacy of the Null-Hypothesis Significance Test - William Rozeboom
Simultaneous Conjoint Measurement - R. Duncan Luce and John Tukey
A New Type of Fundamental Measurement
Construct Validity - Harold Bechtoldt
A Critique
Psychology and the Science of Science - Stanley Stevens
Measurement and Man - Stanley Stevens
On the Statistical Treatment of Football Numbers - Frederic Lord
PART THREE: METHODOLOGY
Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman - Sigmund Koch
An Essay in Reconstruction
Reflexivity - W. Donald Oliver and Alvin Landfield
An Unfaced Issue of Psychology
On the Social Psychology of the Psychological Experiment - Martin Orne
With Particular Reference to Demand Characteristics and Their Implications
Covert Communication in the Psychological Experiment - Robert Rosenthal
On a Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables - Kenneth MacCorquodale and Paul Meehl
VOLUME THREE: MAJOR THEORETICAL POSITIONS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY
PART ONE: FUNCTIONALISM
The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology - John Dewey
Structural and Functional Psychology - Edward Titchener
Minds and Machines - Hilary Putnam
PART TWO: BEHAVIORISM
Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It - John Watson
A New Formula for Behaviorism - Edward Chace Tolman
The Conflicting Psychologies of Learning - Clark Hull
A Way out
Are Theories of Learning Necessary? - Burrhus Skinner
The Psychologist Looks at Language - O. Hobart Mowrer
The Methods and Postulates of 'Behaviorism' - Kenneth Spence
PART THREE: THE EMERGENCE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Human Memory - Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
A Proposed System and Its Control Processes
A Mechanical Model for Human Attention and Immediate Memory - Donald Broadbent
Review of Verbal Behavior - Noam Chomsky
Gestalt Psychology Today - Wolfgang Köhler
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - George Miller
Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
Are Theories of Perception Necessary? - Alan Costall
The Kno

Über Autor(innen)

Stam, Henderikus J
Henderikus Stam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. He is the founding and current editor of the journal Theory and Psychology and is a former President of Division 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association as well as a former President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. He has published widely and his research focuses mainly on the history of psychology and the theoretical foundations of psychology.