History and Theory of Psychology Course

Paul F. Ballantyne, Ph.D.
pballan@comnet.ca

Important Movements in Psychological Theory (1859-2002):

References:

Bakhurst, D. (1991). Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Blitz, D. (1992). Emergent Evolution: Qualitative Novelty and the Levels of Reality. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pub.

Gibson, J. J. (1966). The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Gibson, J. J. (1972). A theory of Direct Visual Perception. In J. Royce, W. Rozenboom (Eds.). The psychology of Knowing. New York: Gordon & Breach.

Gibson, J. J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Leontiev, A.N. (1978). Activity, Consciousness, and Personality. Hillsdale: Prentice-Hall.

Leontyev, [Leontiev], A.N. (1981). Problems of the Development of the Mind. (Trans. M. Kopylova) Moscow: Progress Publishers.

Luria, A. (1973) The Working Brain. London: Allen Lane.

Luria, A. (1976). Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations. (Trans. M. Lopez-Morillas & L. Solotaroff). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Luria, A. (1979). The Making of Mind. London: Harvard University Press.

Munn, N.L. (1971). The Evolution of the Human Mind. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Tolman, C.W. (1987a/b). Theories of Mental Evolution in Comparative Psychology: Darwin to Watson. (15-23); The comparative psychology of A.N. Leontyev -U.S.S.R. (203-209). In E. Tobach (Ed.). Historical Perspectives and the International Status of Comparative Psychology. Hillsdale: LEA.

Tolman, C.W. (1987). Dialectical Materialism as Psychological Metatheory. (211-229). In H. Stam, T. Rogers, and K. Gergen (Eds.). The Analysis of Psychological Theories: Metatheoretical Perspectives. New York: Hemisphere Publ. Co.

Tolman, C.W. (1989). For a Materialist Psychology. (37-49). In Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology. Vol. II. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Vygotsky, L. & Luria, A. (1930/1992). Ape, Primitive Man and Child: Essays in the History of Behavior. (Trans. E. Rossiter). Orlando: Paul M. Deutsch.

Vygotsky, L. & Luria, A. (1930/1993). Studies on the History of Behavior: Ape, Primitive, and Child. (Trans. V. Golod & J. Knox). Hillsdale: LEA.

Yaroshevsky, M. (1990). A History of Psychology. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

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Basic Philosophical Choices, metatheory, and "theory assessment methodology" for a unified 21st century psychology. [Posted: September, 2002; Last Updated: January, 2005]

What is the proper relationship between History of Science and Philosophy of Science? A bibliographic survey with emphasis on Realism, Naturalism, and Evolutionary Epistemology. [Ballantyne, 1993; Updated October, 2002]

Ballantyne, P. (1995). From Initial Abstractions to a Concrete Concept of Personality. In I. Lubek, et al. (Eds.). Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology. Vol. 4., pp. 150-160. New York: Springer.

Four Periods of Historiographic Bloom in Psychology. [Ballantyne, November, 2002]

Early Historians of psychology and their texts (1870s-1921). [Ballantyne, December, 2002]

Edna Heidbreder (1933) on "Prescientific Psychology".

Alex Novikoff (1945) on: The concept of integrative levels and biology.

John Somerville (1967/1983) on: "The Nature of Reality: Dialectical Materialism"

Multiple levels of investigation and the recurring 'crisis of relevance' in psychology. Presentation to the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Dec. 7, 2004.