Theoretical Psychology - Classic Readings

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.

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 Koehler 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 Knowledge Level - Allen Newell Computer Simulation of Human Thinking - Allen Newell and Herbert Simon VOLUME FOUR: THE HUMAN DILEMMA: SOCIAL, DEVELOPMENTAL AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY PART ONE : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Field Theory and Experiments in Social Psychology - Kurt Lewin Concepts and Methods The Need for a Phenomenological System of Psychology - Donald Snygg Social Psychology as History - Kenneth Gergen Scientific Models and Human Morals - Gordon Allport Contributions to Role-Taking Theory - Theodore Sarbin I Hypnotic Behavior From Acts to Dispositions - Edward Jones and Keith Davis The Attribution Process in Person Perception PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Conceptual Emphasis in the History of Developmental Psychology - S. Anandalakshmy and Robert Grinder Evolutionary Theory, Teleology and the Nature-Nurture Issue Selection from the Construction of Reality in the Child - Jean Piaget The Concept of Development from a Comparative and Organismic Point of View - Heinz Werner Selection from Identity - Erik Erikson Youth and Crisis Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models - Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila Ross Moral Stages and Moralization - Lawrence Kohlberg The Cognitive-Developmental Approach PART THREE : ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY A Stimulus-Response Theory of Anxiety and Its Role as a Reinforcing Agent - O. Hobart Mowrer Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy - Carl Rogers Persons or Science? A Philosophical Question - Carl Rogers The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual - Evelyn Hooker A Critique of Cultural and Statistical Concepts of Abnormality - Henry Wegrocki Psychotherapy - Joseph Wolpe The Non-Scientific Heritage and the New Science Intensive Treatment of Psychotic Behaviour by Stimulus Satiation and Food Reinforcement - Teodoro Ayllon