About this book
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academic discipline in the United States during the twentieth century. This first collection begins with an appraisal of functionalism by William James and takes in: early contributions to educational psychology; works of early feminist psychologists; discussions of behaviourism and pragmatism. Also included is Watson and Rayer's famous 1920 "Little Albert" study. (Summary by Carl Manchester)
Chapters (16)
1The Chicago School
2Wherein Should the Education of a Woman Differ from That of a Man
3The Significance of Suicide
4The Contribution of Psychology to Education
5The Case Against Introspection
6The Social Self
7Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (part one)
8Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (part two)
9On Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
10Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children
11Scientific Truth and the Scientific Spirit
12Is Thinking Merely the Action of Language Mechanisms?
13Conditioned Emotional Reactions
14Why Babe Ruth Is Greatest Home Run Hitter
15Accepting the Universe
16A New Formula for Behaviorism
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