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 PSYCHOLOGYIntroduction - Henderikus StamPART ONE: THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGYThe Psychology of Controversy - Edwin BoringThe Conceptual Focus of Some Psychological Systems - Egon BrunswikThe Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology - Lee CronbachThe Place of Theory in Science - Karl DallenbachThat′s Interesting! - Murray DavisTowards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of PhenomenologyA Project for a Scientific Psychology - Sigmund FreudThe Logical Analysis of Psychology - Carl HempelPsychology and Emerging Conceptions of Knowledge as Unitary - Sigmund KochTheoretical Psychology 1950 - Sigmund KochAn OverviewWundt′s Creature at Age Zero - and as Centenarian - Sigmund KochSome Aspects of the Institutionalization of the ′New Psychology′The Conflict between Aristotelian and Galilean Modes of Thought in Contemporary Psychology - Kurt LewinThe Formal Criteria of a Systematic Psychology - John McGeoch TheCurrent Impact of Freud upon Psychology - Gardner MurphyThe Cult of Empiricism in Psychology, and beyond - Stephen Toulmin and David LearyThe Nature of Theory Construction in Contemporary Psychology - Kenneth SpenceVirtue Rewarded and Vice Punished - Ruth TolmanVOLUME TWO: THEORY AND METHODPART ONE: PSYCHOPHYSICSPsychophysical Analysis - Louis ThurstoneThe Direct Estimation of Sensory Magnitudes-Loudness - Stanley StevensIs There a Sensory Threshold? - John SwetsPART TWO: MEASUREMENTA Theory of Data - Clyde CoombsTheoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks - Paul MeehlSir Karl, Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft PsychologyMeasurement Scales and Statistics - Joel MichellA Clash of ParadigmsConstruct Validity in Psychological Tests - Lee Cronbach and Paul MeehlThe Fallacy of the Null-Hypothesis Significance Test - William RozeboomSimultaneous Conjoint Measurement - R. Duncan Luce and John TukeyA New Type of Fundamental MeasurementConstruct Validity - Harold BechtoldtA CritiquePsychology and the Science of Science - Stanley StevensMeasurement and Man - Stanley StevensOn the Statistical Treatment of Football Numbers - Frederic LordPART THREE: METHODOLOGYPsychology′s Bridgman versus Bridgman′s Bridgman - Sigmund KochAn Essay in ReconstructionReflexivity - W. Donald Oliver and Alvin LandfieldAn Unfaced Issue of PsychologyOn the Social Psychology of the Psychological Experiment - Martin OrneWith Particular Reference to Demand Characteristics and Their ImplicationsCovert Communication in the Psychological Experiment - Robert RosenthalOn a Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables - Kenneth MacCorquodale and Paul MeehlVOLUME THREE: MAJOR THEORETICAL POSITIONS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY PSYCHOLOGYPART ONE: FUNCTIONALISMThe Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology - John DeweyStructural and Functional Psychology - Edward TitchenerMinds and Machines - Hilary PutnamPART TWO: BEHAVIORISMPsychology as the Behaviorist Views It - John WatsonA New Formula for Behaviorism - Edward Chace TolmanThe Conflicting Psychologies of Learning - Clark HullA Way outAre Theories of Learning Necessary? - Burrhus SkinnerThe Psychologist Looks at Language - O. Hobart MowrerThe Methods and Postulates of ′Behaviorism′ - Kenneth SpencePART THREE: THE EMERGENCE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGYHuman Memory - Richard Atkinson and Richard ShiffrinA Proposed System and Its Control ProcessesA Mechanical Model for Human Attention and Immediate Memory - Donald BroadbentReview of Verbal Behavior - Noam ChomskyGestalt Psychology Today - Wolfgang KöhlerThe Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - George MillerSome Limits on Our Capacity for Processing InformationAre Theories of Perception Necessary? - Alan CostallThe Knowledge Level - Allen NewellComputer Simulation of Human Thinking - Allen Newell and Herbert SimonVOLUME FOUR: THE HUMAN DILEMMA: SOCIAL, DEVELOPMENTAL AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGYPART ONE : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYField Theory and Experiments in Social Psychology - Kurt LewinConcepts and MethodsThe Need for a Phenomenological System of Psychology - Donald SnyggSocial Psychology as History - Kenneth GergenScientific Models and Human Morals - Gordon AllportContributions to Role-Taking Theory - Theodore SarbinI Hypnotic BehaviorFrom Acts to Dispositions - Edward Jones and Keith DavisThe Attribution Process in Person PerceptionPART TWO: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGYConceptual Emphasis in the History of Developmental Psychology - S. Anandalakshmy and Robert GrinderEvolutionary Theory, Teleology and the Nature-Nurture IssueSelection from the Construction of Reality in the Child - Jean PiagetThe Concept of Development from a Comparative and Organismic Point of View - Heinz WernerSelection from Identity - Erik EriksonYouth and CrisisTransmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models - Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila RossMoral Stages and Moralization - Lawrence KohlbergThe Cognitive-Developmental ApproachPART THREE : ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGYA Stimulus-Response Theory of Anxiety and Its Role as a Reinforcing Agent - O. Hobart MowrerSignificant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy - Carl RogersPersons or Science? A Philosophical Question - Carl Rogers The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual - Evelyn HookerA Critique of Cultural and Statistical Concepts of Abnormality - Henry Wegrocki Psychotherapy - Joseph WolpeThe Non-Scientific Heritage and the New ScienceIntensive Treatment of Psychotic Behaviour by Stimulus Satiation and Food Reinforcement - Teodoro Ayllon