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Wnet: Thirteen: Secret Life of the Brain: History of the Brain
From the PBS series, this history traces our quest to understand the human brain with an extensive timeline.
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Classics History of Psychology: Commentary Psychology as Behaviorist Views It
Modern comments on the classic paper delivered by John B. Watson in 1913. The paper, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" is considered by the psychological profession as the "behaviorist manifesto" and lays much of the foundation...
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Behaviorism the Modern Note in Psychology
"Behaviorism--The modern Note in Psychology" written by John B. Watson in 1925 was an important paper in the development of Behaviorism in Psychology. It is reproduced in full here.
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Classics in History of Psychology: Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance
This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. First published in 1959 this paper looks at what happens to a person's private opinion when he/she is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men
A Classic Psychological work by Edward Tolman from 1948. His experiments with rats led to discussion of cognitive maps in man.
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Classics History of Psychology: Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness
Classic Psychology paper on the "Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness" by K.S. Lashley originally published in 1923.
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Classics History of Psychology: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
Classic series of lectures presented by Sigmund Freud and first published in the "American Journal of Psychology" in 1910 entitled "The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis" with introduction and commentary by Dr. Raymond E. Fancher.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Timeline: History of Psychology
Learn about the historical foundations of contemporary psychology. Use the timeline to explore key events, publications, and perspectives that have shaped psychology from the late 19th century to the present.
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Simply Psychology: Social Psychology
Explains what social psychology is, its history, and significant leaders in the field and the theories they developed.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Gestalt Psychology Today
This site is provided for by York University. Where classic Freudian Psychoanalysis fails with the non-verbal patient, Gestalt Psychology tries to combine a little drama, movement, and action to broaden the scope and population that...
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Conflicting Psychologies of Learning
A 1935 paper by psychologist Clark Hull. He discusses the disagreements between different types of psychologists and gives details of how to make psychological research more scientific.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Psychological Testing
Provides detailed information on psychological testing, describing its history and the many types of tests.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: The Nature of Love
This resource presents a paper published in 1958 about the formation of affection. It looks at different psychological perspectives on this topic.
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Classics History of Psychology: Observations on the Organization of Personality
A transcript of Carl Rogers' address as the retiring President at the American Psychological Association the September 1947 Annual Meeting.
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New World Encyclopedia: Abnormal Psychology
Explains what the field of abnormal psychology covers, its historical roots, the different models used in the study of mental illness, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used in diagnosis, and the...
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Classics in the History of Psychology: The Social Self
A classic reading in psychology, this paper by George Herbert Mean was first published in 1913 on the social self.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: The Vectors of Mind
This site goes into detail about Spearman's two factor theory. From the classic paper "The Vectors of Mind" by L. L. Thurstone (1934) Address of the president before the American Psychological Association, Chicago meeting, September, 1933.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
Classical article by John B. Watson (one of the founders of Behaviorism) defining his views on Behaviorism.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Principles of Psychology by William James
Complete volumes of the two volumes of this work are available for study.
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Classics History of Psychology: Value/need as Organizing Factors in Perception
This resource presents a paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.
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Classics History of Psychology: New Methods Intellectual Level of Subnormals
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon's work from 1905 serves as an introduction to the classic study on intelligence by Henry L. Minton, University of Windsor.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
This is the Robbers Cave Experiment. This experiment focused on intergroup relations, mostly negative attitudes toward the out group.
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Classics in the History of Psychology: Supersition in the Pigeon: B. F. Skinner
Classic study by B. F. Skinner concerning learned behavior in a pigeon.
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Classics in the History of Psych: Sigmund Freud
This page provides an index to Freud's papers on the Interpretation of Dreams. Original full text, simply select the chapter or topic.