Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Psychology
“Tramp” Bibliography, S. Ray Granade
The Pavlov-Yerkes Connection: What Was Its Origin?, Randall D. Wight
The Pavlov-Yerkes Connection: What Was Its Origin?, Randall D. Wight
Articles
Historians of psychology traditionally acknowledge Robert Mearns Yerkes as responsible for introducing the work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov to American psychologists. The introduction occurred in a 1909 Psychological Bulletin paper coauthored with Harvard graduate student, Sergius Morgulls. Yet how Yerkes, who did not read Russian and who never personally used Pavlov's conditioning paradigm, came to know and appreciate Pavlov's endeavors is unclear. This paper examines how Yerkes became acquainted with salivary conditioning studies and suggests a reason why the 1909 paper was actually written.
Portraits Of A Discipline: An Examination Of Introductory Psychology Textbooks In America, Randall D. Wight, Wayne Weiten
Portraits Of A Discipline: An Examination Of Introductory Psychology Textbooks In America, Randall D. Wight, Wayne Weiten
Articles
"The time has gone by when any one person could hope to write an adequate textbook of psychology. The science has now so many branches, so many methods, so many fields of application, and such an immense mass of data of observation is now on record, that no one person can hope to have the necessary familiarity with the whole." - An author of an introductory psychology text
"If we compare general psychology textbooks of today with those of from ten to twenty years ago we note an undeniable trend toward amelioration of terminology, simplification of style, and popularization of …
A Title Oscillation: Journal Of Comparative Neurology And Psychology, 1904-1910, Randall D. Wight
A Title Oscillation: Journal Of Comparative Neurology And Psychology, 1904-1910, Randall D. Wight
Articles
From 1904 through 1910, the Journal of Comparative Neurology became the Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. This article attempts a reconstruction of the events behind this title oscillation from archival sources.
History And Psychology: Shall The Twain Ever Meet?, S. Ray Granade, Randall D. Wight
History And Psychology: Shall The Twain Ever Meet?, S. Ray Granade, Randall D. Wight
Articles
As all detectives (fictional or real) know, every story contains at least an element of truth, and the most likely is usually the most truthful. Those trying to cover their tracks know or discover to their dismay that interrogators use that principle to their own advantage. Early in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the disguised Huck realizes this simple reality when he first returns to town after his faked death and “pumps” Mrs. Judith Loftus for information: “Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it [his name] was Mary before,” Huck relates; “seemed to me I …