Basic writings in the history of psychology
The difference between physical and psychological sciences / Fact collecting, induction, experiment, and the utilitarian value of science / The heart as a mechanical pump / Rationalism, dualism, subjectivism, and mechanism / Psychology and the state, the importance of motivation, the subjectivity of perception, and the nature of association / Scientific method, mechanical forces, and the experimental study of vision / Ideas as dependent upon experience and reflection, and the association of ideas / Mentalism, association, and the perception of space / The empirical origin of ideas, and association, including causality and self
Associations of the mindand vibrations of the body / Association and mental chemistry / Thenativistic, active structuring of experience and the impossibility of a science of psychology / Ideas as forces, the threshold of consciousness, the essential nature of mathematics, and the significance of apperception / Vitalism and the specific energy of nerves / Measurement and psychophysics / Speed of neural impulse, the tripartite theory of colorvision, the place theory of audition, and the empirical theory of space perception / The science of psychology as the experimental study of mental elements and their creative synthesis / Act psychology / Experimental research on memory
The study of thinking, including imageless thought / Natural selection, and emotions a serviceable associated habits / Individual differences expressed in eminence in families, and in mental imagery / Evolution, adaptation, and habit / Instances of mind in animals / The canon of interpretation animal activity / The stream of consciousness, its functional and personal character, and on habit, instinct, emotion, and memory / Development / Individual differences, the quantitative assessment on human capacities, and applications of psychology / The circular and functional character of the reflex arc / The nature of functional psychology / The definition of psychology, the nature of social psychology, and the significance of instincts / Animal and human learning by trial and error and the influence of exercise and effect
Conditioning and the first and second signal systems / Behaviorism as psychology, its appropriate methods, and his approaches to emotion and conditioning / Form qualities / Perceptual organization into wholes and gestalt psychology / Learning, isomorphism, and perception / Convergence in development, phenomenology, and the psychophysical field as the basis for gestaltpsychology / Field theory and action research / Psychoanalysis as a method of investigation, a means of treatment, and a system of psychology / Compensation, inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, and style of life / Symbols, the collective unconsciousness, complexes, and types of personality / Cerebral localization of function, equipotentiality, and mass action / Molar, purposive, and cognitive behaviorism / Contiguity in learning / The hypothetico-deductive approach to a behavior system / Work as a scientist, operant conditioning, and freedom and control
Watson, Robert I. (Robert Irving), 1909-1980, compiler.
Galilei Galileo -- Francis Bacon -- William Harvey -- Rene Descartes -- Thomas Hobbes -- Isaac Newton -- John Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume.
David Hartley -- James and John Stuart Mill -- Immanuel Kant -- Johann Herbart -- Johannes Muller -- Ernst Weber and Gustav -- Hermann Von Helmholtz -- Wilhelm Wundt -- Franz Brentano -- Hermann Ebbinghaus.
Oswald Kulpe -- Charles Darwin -- Francis Galton -- Herbert Spencer -- George Romanes -- Conwy Llyod Morgan -- William James -- G. Stanley Hall -- James Cattell --Element aristic structural psychology / Edward Titchener -- John Dewey -- James Rowland Angell -- William Mcdougall -- Edward Lee Thorndike.
Ivan Pavlov -- John B. Watson -- Christian Von Ehrenfels -- Max Wertheimer -- Wolfgang Kohler -- Kurt Koffka -- Kurt Lewin -- Sigmund Freud -- Alfred Adler -- Carl Jung -- Karl Lashley -- Edward Tolman -- Edwin Guthrie -- Clark Hull -- B.F. Skinner.
[compiled by] Robert I. Watson, Sr.
