Reading List
History and Systems of Psychology
Summer I 2004 – University of North Texas

Philosophy of Science. Precursors of Psychology.

Chapters 1 – 3 
Sternberg, R. J. & Grigorenko, E. L. (2001). Unified Psychology. American Psychologist, 56, 1069 – 1079.

Historical Individuals in Psychology: Read the chapter sections for each individual listed.  There are four activities you should complete for each reading.  First, you should record and understand the methods used by the psychologist.  Second, you should record and understand the definition of psychology and the major principles of psychology used by each person.  Third, you should investigate the network of people associated with each individual.  That is, when reading about the historical individuals, you will encounter names of other individuals.  You should find these secondary individuals and understand their roles in psychology, their view of psychology, and their relationship with the individual(s) on the list.  This is an ongoing activity insofar as you are to construct a network of individuals to understand how the relationships among these individuals contributed the development of psychology as a discipline and science.  Fourth, you should conceptualize each individual’s career in chronological order.  This is also an ongoing activity so that at the end of the term you will have a timeline of for the development of psychology.

Precursors of Psychology

René Descartes
August Comte
George Berkeley
Herman von Helmholtz
Ernst Weber
Gustav Fechner
Charles Darwin 
Francis Galton

Chapter 2 (pp. 32 – 35)
Chapter 2 (pp. 39 – 40)
Chapter 2 (pp. 44 – 46)
Chapter 3 (pp. 63 – 65)
Chapter 3 (pp. 66 – 67)
Chapter 3 (pp. 68 – 71)
Chapter 6 (pp. 133 – 137, 143 – 144)
Chapter 6 (pp. 144 – 152)

Study of Consciousness

Wilhelm Wundt
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Franz Brentano
Carl Stumpf
E. B. Tichener
Sigmund Freud
Anna Freud
Carl Jung
Alfred Adler
Karen Horney
Chapter 4 (pp. 77 – 86)
Chapter 4 (pp.93 – 98)
Chapter 4 (pp.99 – 100)
Chapter 4 (pp.101 – 102)
Chapter 5 (109 – 117)
Chapter 13 (386 – 404)
Chapter 14 (424 – 426)
Chapter 14 (426 – 434)
Chapter 14 (435 – 439)
Chapter 14 (439 – 443)

Study of Behavior

Margaret Washburn
E. L. Thorndike
Ivan Pavlov
E. B. Twitmyer
John B. Watson
Clark Hull
B. F. Skinner
Chapter 9 (pp. 250 – 251)
Chapter 9 (pp. 255 – 260)
Chapter 9 (pp. 260 – 268)
Chapter 9 (pp. 266 – 267)
Chapter 10 (pp. 274 – 286)
Chapter 11 (pp. 314 – 319)
Chapter 11 (pp. 319 – 331)

Study of Mental Processes

William James
Mary Calkins
James Angell
G. Stanley Hall
E. C. Tolman
Max Wertheimer
Kurt Koffka
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Lewin
Chapter 7 (pp. 164 – 175)
Chapter 7 (pp. 175 – 177)
Chapter 7 (pp. 182 – 184)
Chapter 8 (pp. 201 – 207)
Chapter 11 (pp. 308 – 312)
Chapter 12 (pp. 348 – 350)
Chapter 12 (pp. 350 – 351)
Chapter 12 (pp. 351 – 353)
Chapter 12 (pp. 368 – 372)

Historical Systems of Psychology: For each system of psychology listed, you should complete three activities.  First, you should identify and record the individuals associated with each system.  Second, you should identify and record the definition of psychology (and any definition of what psychology is not).  Finally, you should identify and record the strengths (e.g., how the system advanced the science of psychology) and the weaknesses (or criticisms) of each system.

Study of Consciousness

Structuralism
Psychoanalysis

Chapters 4 & 5
Chapters 13 & 14

Study of Behavior

Behaviorism

Chapters 9 – 11 

Study of Mental Processes

Functionalism
Gestalt Psychology

Chapters 6 & 7
Chapter 12

Present Science of Psychology: For this section, you only will need to read Chapter 8 and the section titled The Future History of Psychology in the textbook.  In addition, there is a set of individuals on whom you will need to concentrate.  For these individuals, you will need to complete the four activities used for the previous sets of individuals.  The individuals are listed below.

Applied Psychology

James Cattell

Chapter 8 (pp. 207 – 213)

Social Psychology

Albert Bandura
Julian Rotter
Gordon Allport

Chapter 11 (pp. 332 – 335)
Chapter 11 (pp. 335 – 338)
Chapter 14 (pp. 444 – 447)

Humanistic Psychology

Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers

Chapter 15 (pp. 459 – 462)
Chapter 15 (pp. 462 – 464)

Cognitive Psychology

George Miller
Ulric Neisser

Chapter 15 (pp. 471 – 473)
Chapter 15 (pp. 473 – 475)