Foundations of Psychological Thought: A History of Psychology » (1st Edition)

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.

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 demonstrates 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.

- Further Reading section

- Ideas and Study Questions to help students reinforce understanding of the excerpts.

PART 1: THE MIND AND THE BODY
1.1 The passions of the soul (1649) - René Descartes Of the passions in general, and incidentally of the whole nature of man
1.2 Psychology (1892) - William James The self
1.3 Outlines of psychology (1897) - Wilhelm Wundt Psychical causality and its laws
1.4 Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) - Alan Turing
The mind-body problem; Can computers think?
1.5 Minds, brains, & science (1984) - John Searle
PART 2: PERCEIVING
2.1 Essay towards a new theory of vision (1709) - George Berkeley
2.2 Essays on the intellectual powers of man (1785) - Thomas Reid
Of perception; Of sensation; Of the objects of perception
2.3 Treatise on physiological optics (1867) - Hermann von Helmholtz
Concerning the perceptions in general
2.4 The perception of the visual world (1950) - J. J. Gibson
A psychophysical theory of perception
2.5 Visual information processing: The structure and creation of visual representations (1980) - David Marr
PART 3: OPENING THE BLACK BOX
3.1 On the speed of mental processes (1868) - F. C. Donders
3.2 An outline of psychology (1896) - E. B. Titchener
The meaning and problem of psychology; Sensations as a conscious element—The method of investigating sensation; The quality of sensation; Affection as a conscious element—The method of investigating affection
3.3 Psychopathology of everyday life (1901) - Sigmund Freud
The forgetting of foreign words
3.4 Human acquisition of concepts for sequential patterns (1963) - Herbert Simon and Kenneth Kotovsky
3.5 About behaviorism (1974) - B. F. Skinner
Operant behavior
3.6 Localizationof cognitive operations in the human brain (1988) - Michael Posner, Steven Petersen, Peter Fox, and Marcus Raichle
PART 4: NATIVISM AND EMPIRICISM aka HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
4.1 Comments on a certain broadsheet (1648) - René Descartes
4.2 An essay concerning human understanding (1690) - John Locke
Introduction; Of ideas in general, and their original; Of simple ideas; Of ideas of one sense; Of solidity; Of simple ideas and reflection; Of simple ideas of both sensation and reflection
4.3 The origin of species (1859) - Charles Darwin
Instincts
4.4 The facts of perception (1878) - Hermann von Helmholtz
4.5 Instincts and their vicissitudes (1915) - Sigmund Freud
4.6 What the nursery has to say about instincts (1925) - John Watson
4.7 The misbehavior of organisms (1961) - Keller Breland, Marian Breland
4.8 Language & mind (1972) - Noam Chomsky
Linguistic contributions to the study of mind: Future PART 5: LEVELS OF EXPLANATION
5.1 Laws of organization in perceptual forms (1923) - Max Wertheimer
5.2 Conditioned reflexes: An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex (1927) - Ivan Pavlov
5.3 Experiments in social space (1939) - Kurt Lewin
5.4 Cognitive maps in rats and men (1948) - Edward Tolman
5.5 Organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory (1949) - Donald Hebb
Introduction Images and plans; The unit of analysis; Instincts
5.6 Cognitive neuroscience and the study of memory (1998) - Brenda Milner, Larry Squire and Eric Kandel PART 6: NORMAL & ABNORMAL
6.1 Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind (1812) - Benjamin Rush
On the remote and exciting causes of intellectual derangement
6.2 A critique of cultural and statistical concepts of abnormality (1939) - Henry Wegrocki
6.3 Neurosis and human growth (1950) - Karen Horney
The tyranny of the should
6.4 The adjustment of the male overt homosexual (1957) - Evelyn Hooker
6.5 The myth of mental illness (1960) - Thomas Szasz
6.6 Biological psychiatry: Is there any other kind? (1989) - Samuel Guze
6.7 The mental health continuum: From languishing to flourishing in life (2002) - Corey Keyes