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, 86, 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

 

 

Study of Consciousness

 

Study of Behavior

 

Study of Mental Processes

 

 

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

 

 

Study of Behavior

 

Study of Mental Processes

 

 

 

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

 

 

Social Psychology

 

 

Humanistic Psychology

 

 

Cognitive Psychology