History and Systems of Psychology
Psychology 314
Henry Minton
Winter 1995
Department of Psychology
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
Texts: Hergenhahn An Introduction to the History
of Psychology (2nd edition)
Dates Topic
Chapters
1/10 Preview
1/12 Introduction
1
1/17 Greek Philosophers 2,
3 (pp. 5561)
1/19 Middle Ages and Renaissance 3
(pp, 6177), 4
1/24 Empiricism (Hand in topic preference) 5
1/26 Rationalism
6
1/31 Romanticism
7
2/2 EXAM 1
2/7 Physiology (Group Meetings) 8
2/9 Wundt
9 (pp. 235245)
2/14 Titchener
9 (pp. 245259)
2/16 Darwin and Galton
10 (pp. 263276)
2/21 The Testing Movement 10 (pp. 276293)
2/23 James 11
(pp. 298311)
3/7 Functionalism
11 (pp. 311331)
3/9 EXAM 2
3/14 Pavlov (Group Meetings) 12 (pp.
335346)
3/16 Watson 12
(pp. 346366)
3/21 Tolman and Hull 13
(pp. 370384) 3/23 Skinner
13 (pp, 384393)
3/28 Gestalt Psychology
14
3/30 Antecedents of Psychoanalysis 15
4/4 Psychoanalysis (Group Meetings) 16
4/6 Panel Presentations: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
4/11 Panel Presentations: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
4/13 Panel Presentations: 1970s, 1980s
(hand in term papers)
4/20 FINAL EXAM
Course Requirements:
2 Term Exams 20% each
Final Exam 25% (note: class frequency distribution to be
considered in assignment
of exam grades)
Term Paper 25%
Panel Presentation 10% (group grade)
Cheating and plagiarizing will have disciplinary consequences.
Term Paper:
On January 24 hand in your tentative selection for a topic.
Topic choices are listed on the last page of this handout, Turn
in this form on the date indicated. Papers are to be handed in
on last day of class (April 13).
For your paper, you will choose a topic area and historical
period (see attached list) and answer the questionTo
what extent has research and theory in the area been influenced
by the cultural, economic, and political conditions of North American
society during the era considered. For example, if you
choose to study "racial prejudice" in the 1930s, to
what extent did the psychological research on race prejudice reflect
such major events of the decade as the Great Depression, the rise
of fascism, and the threat of global conflict?
In order to write your paper, you will need to review
the psychological literature in American and Canadian sources
for the period in question, Thus, you will have to consult periodicals,
textbooks, and other books published during the period in question,
Secondary sources, i.e., works published later that review the
literature of the period will also be useful.
The Resource List (separate handout) will be helpful for
your literature review, especially Section II B (Topical Bibliographies).
Biographical sources (see Section I) may also be of some help
if you determine the influence of particular psychologists who
were important at the time (e.g., J.B, Watson on learning during
the 1910s).
Note that your concern is with the United States and Canada.
Thus, if you choose a topic such as psychoanalysis, which developed
in Europe, you will need to investigate what was written in North
America from a psychoanalytic viewpoint.
Your paper will also be based on what you investigate
about the sociocultural, economic, and political conditions of
the time. For this part of the paper you will be able to draw
from the group you will be assigned to for the panel presentation
(see below). Also see sections III, IV, 2nd V of Resource List.
Your paper should be about 1215 doublespaced
typed pages plus a bibliography.
Panel Presentation
Based on your preference, you will be assigned to
a group dealing with a particular decade. The task for each group
is to develop a cultural history that members can make use of
in their individual papers. In other words, as an example, what
were the major events, lifestyles, outlooks of North American
society during the 1960s. There are many sources for this project
and these can be divided among the group. Some suggestions are
included under Section III of the Resource List. Other sources
are popular periodicals, e.g., Time, Ladies Home Journal, Harper's,
etc. (See Sections IV and V), Interviewing parents, grandparents,
etc. may also be helpful. Class time will be set aside for group
meetings (see class schedule).
Each panel will be asked to give an oral presentation
of what the members' conclusions were from each of their papers.
Each group can decide on how to conduct the oral presentation,
Some suggestions: (a) each member of the group gives a brief summary
of their own conclusions, (b) one member of the group acts as
a "talkshow" host and interviews the group members,
(c) two or three members act as spokespersons summarizing the
conclusions of each member or common findings across group. Each
group will have about 25 minutes to present. At the time of the
panel presentation, a brief written outline (1 or 2 pages) should
be handed in to document the presentation.
History and Systems Topics
Rank your preferences for historical periodl
next to your first choice, then 2 and 3,
_____1910S _____1950s
_____1920s _____1960s
_____1930s _____1970s
_____1940s _____1980s
Rank your 3 preferences for topics using the same notation
as above. These topics are suggestive; you may also choose other
topics by writing these in on blank spaces provided. Hand this
sheet in on January 24. I will return this to you to confirm
your choices.
_____ Early Childhood _____ Adolescence
_____ Aging _____ ChildRearing
Practices
_____ Moral Development _____ Animal Behavior
_____ Emotion _____ Motivation
_____ Learning _____ Memory
_____ Cognition _____ Psycholinguistics
_____ Small Groups _____ Attitudes
_____ Racial Prejudice _____ Aggression
_____ Conformity _____ Sex Differences
_____ Psychology of Women _____ Homosexuality
_____ Schizophrenia _____ Neurosis
_____ Psychotherapy _____ Psychoanalysis
_____ Personality _____ Intelligence
Testing
_____ Industrial Psychology _____ Community Psychology
_____ Educational Psychology _____ Military Psychology
_____ _______________________ _____ _______________________
_____ _______________________ _____ _______________________