McGraw-Hill OnlineMcGraw-Hill Higher EducationLearning Center
Student Center | Instructor Center | Information Center | Home
Career Opportunities
Glossary
Internet Guide
Study Skills Primer
Statistics Primer
Grade Summit
PowerWeb
Learning Objectives
Chapter Outline
Multiple Choice Quiz
Glossary
Flashcards
Interactive Reviews
Interactive Activities
Crossword Puzzle
Web Links
FAQs
Around The Globe
For More Information
Feedback
Help Center


Psychology 5/e Book Cover
Psychology, 5/e
Lester M. Sdorow, Arcadia University
Cheryl A. Rickabaugh, University of Redlands

The Nature of Psychology

For More Information On The Nature Of Psychology

For More on the History of Psychology

General Works

        Viney, W., and King, D. B. (1998). A history of psychology: Ideas and context. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

        Wright, M. J., and Myers, C. R. (1982). History of academic psychology in Canada. Toronto: Hogrefe.

The Roots of Psychology

Philosophical Roots

        Robinson, D. N. (1989). Aristotle's psychology. New York: Columbia University Press.

        Robinson, T. M. (1994). Plato's psychology.(2nd ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Scientific Roots

        Clarke, E., and Jacyna, L. S. (1987). Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts. Berkeley: University of California Press.

        Cowan, R. S., and Rosenberg, C. (Eds.). (1985). Sir Francis Galton and the study of heredity in the nineteenth century. New York: Garland.

The Growth of Psychology

        Guthrie, R. V. (1997). Even the rat was white: A historical view of psychology (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

        Robinson, D. N. (1983). Toward a science of human nature: Aspirations of nineteenth-century psychology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Structuralism

        Titchener, E. B. (1929/1972). Systematic psychology: Prolegomena. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Functionalism

        Owens, D. A., and Wagner, M. (Eds.). (1992). Progress in modern psychology: The legacy of American functionalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Behaviorism

        O'Donnell, J. M. (1985). The origins of behaviorism: American psychology, 1870-1920. New York: New York University Press.

Gestalt Psychology

        Kohler, W. (1947). Gestalt psychology. New York: New American Library.

Psychoanalysis

        Fine, R. (1987). The development of Freud's thought. Northvale, NJ: Aronson.

Contemporary Psychology

        Gilgen, A. R. (1982). American psychology since World War II: A profile of the discipline. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Behavioral Perspective

        Smith, L. D., and Woodward, W. R. (Eds.). (1996). B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press.

Psychoanalytic Perspective

        Fisher, S., and Greenberg, R. P. (1985). The scientific credibility of Freud's theories and therapy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Humanistic Perspective

        DeCarvalho, R. J. (1990). The growth hypothesis in psychology: The humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. Lewiston, NY: Mellen.

Cognitive Perspective

        Gardner, H. (1985). The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution. New York: Basic Books.

Biopsychological Perspective

        Corsi, P. (Ed.). (1991). The enchanted loom: Chapters in the history of neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

Social-Cultural Perspective

        Cole, M. (1996). Cultural psychology: A once and future discipline. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.

        Matsumoto, D. (1996). Culture and psychology. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

For More on Psychology as a Profession

        Fagan, T. K., and VandenBos, G. R. (Eds.). (1993). Exploring applied psychology: Origins and critical analyses. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

        Rheingold, H. L. (1994). The psychologist's guide to an academic career. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

For More on Contributors to Psychology

Contributors to the Roots of Psychology

Philosophical Roots

        Cassirer, E. (1981). Kant's life and thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

        Cranston, M. (1979). John Locke: A biography. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Gaukroger, S. (1995). Descartes: An intellectual biography. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Goodman, L. E. (1992). Avicenna. New York: Routledge.

        Leary, J. E. (1994). Francis Bacon and the politics of science. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

        Wilbur, J. B., and Allen, H. J. (Eds.). (1979). The worlds of Plato and Aristotle. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.

        Wills, G. (1999). Saint Augustine. New York: Viking Press.

Scientific Roots

        Bowlby, J. (1991). Charles Darwin: A new life. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Forrest, D. W. (1974). Francis Galton: The life and work of a Victorian genius. New York: Taplinger.

        Koenigsberger, L. (1906). Hermann von Helmholtz. Oxford, England: Clarendon.

        Rieber, R. W. (Ed.). (1980). Wilhelm Wundt and the making of a scientific psychology.New York: Plenum Press.

Contributors to the Growth of Psychology

Structuralism

        Leys, R., and Evans, R. B. (Eds.). (1990). Defining American psychology: The correspondence between Adolph Meyer and Edward Bradford Titchener. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Functionalism

        Hale, M., Jr. (1980). Human science and social order: Hugo Münsterberg and the origins of applied psychology. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

        Ross, D. (1972). G. Stanley Hall: The psychologist as prophet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

        Simon, L. (1998). Genuine reality: A life of William James. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Behaviorism

        Buckley, K. W. (1989). Mechanical man: John Broadus Watson and the beginnings of behaviorism. New York: Guilford.

        Todes, D. (2000). Pavlov: Exploring the animal machine. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gestalt Psychology

        Harrower, M. (1984). Kurt Koffka: An unwitting self-portrait. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida.

Psychoanalysis

        Gay, P. (1988). Freud: A life for our time. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Hoffman, E. (1994). The drive for self: Alfred Adler and the founding of individual psychology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

        McLynn, F. (1996). Carl Gustav Jung. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Women Contributors

        O'Connell, A. N., and Russo, N. F. (Eds.). (1983). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology (Vol. 1). New York: Columbia University Press.

        O'Connell, A. N., and Russo, N. F. (Eds.). (1988). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology (Vol. 2). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

        Scarborough, E., and Furumoto, L. (1987). Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists. New York: Columbia University Press.

Contributors to Contemporary Psychology

The Behavioral Perspective

        Bjork, D. W. (1993). B. F. Skinner: A life. New York: Basic Books.

        Evans, R. I. (1989). Albert Bandura: The man and his ideas. New York: Praeger.

The Psychoanalytic Perspective

        Erikson, E. H. (1999). Identity's architect: An authorized biography of Erik Erikson. New York: Simon and Schuster.

        Funk, R. (2000). Erich Fromm: His life and ideas. New York: Continuum.

        Grosskurth, P. (1986). Melanie Klein: Her world and her work. New York: Knopf.

        Perry, H. S. (1982). Psychiatrist of America: The life of Harry Stack Sullivan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

        Quinn, S. (1987). A mind of her own: The life of Karen Horney. New York: Summit.

        Young-Bruehl, E. (1988). Anna Freud. New York: Summit.

The Humanistic Perspective

        Hoffman, E. (1988). The right to be human: A biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Tarcher.

        Kirschenbaum, H. (1979). On becoming Carl Rogers. New York: Delacorte.

The Cognitive Perspective

        Simon, H. A. (1991). Models of my life. New York: Basic Books.

        Vidal, F. (1994). Piaget before Piaget. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

        Wolfe, E. L., Barger, A. C., and Benison, S. (2000). Walter B. Cannon: Science and society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

The Biopsychological Perspective

        Cannon, D. F. (1949). Explorer of the human brain: The life of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. New York: Henry Schuman.

        Lewis, J. (1982). Something hidden: A biography of Wilder Penfield. New York: Doubleday.