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Annals of Theoretical Psychology

Volume 1

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Joseph R. Royce

    1. Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  2. Leendert P. Mos

    1. Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Chapter 1

    1. Cognition

      • Dalbir Bindra
      Pages 1-29

  3. Chapter 2

    1. Schema and Inference

      • Carl F. Graumann, Michael Sommer
      Pages 31-76

    2. Progress and Problems in Cognitive Social Psychology

      • Thomas K. Srull, Robert S. Wyer Jr
      Pages 77-84

    3. Schemata and Inferences across Time and Space

      • Arie W. Kruglanski
      Pages 85-93

    4. The Cognitive Movement

      • Kenneth J. Gergen
      Pages 95-100

    5. Perspectives on Cognitivism

      • Carl F. Graumann, Michael Sommer
      Pages 101-110

  4. Chapter 3

    1. Freud’s Secret Cognitive Theories

      • Mary Henle
      Pages 111-134

    2. Sigmund Freud as a Logical Phenomenologist

      • Joseph F. Rychlak
      Pages 135-141

    3. Freud’s Not-So-Secret Theories

      • Lisa Gaelick, Robert S. Wyer Jr.
      Pages 143-153

    4. Freud’s Secret Cognitive Theories

      • Mary Henle
      Pages 155-159

  5. Chapter 4

    1. Limitations of the Dispositional Analysis of Behavior

      • Walter B. Weimer
      Pages 161-198

    2. Merits and Limits of Dispositional Analysis

      • Gunnar Andersson, Gerard Radnitzky
      Pages 199-204

    3. Dispositions Do Explain

      • William W. Rozeboom
      Pages 205-223

    4. Limitations of the Dispositional Analysis of Behavior

      • Walter B. Weimer
      Pages 225-232

  6. Chapter 5

    1. The Place of Individual Differences in a Scientific Psychology

      • H. J. Eysenck
      Pages 233-285

    2. Problems with Parameters

      • Jeffrey A. Gray
      Pages 287-291

    3. The Scientific Status of Individual Differences

      • James A. Wakefield Jr.
      Pages 293-296

    4. Surface and Deep Structures in Individual Differences

      • D. Cartwright
      Pages 297-304

    5. The Place of Individual Differences in a Scientific Psychology

      • H. J. Eysenck
      Pages 305-314
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About this book

Some one hundred years ago the founding fathers optimistically launched psychology as a science. The premise was that the new science must break away from its parental ties to philosophy and confine itself to gathering data, preferably in the psychology laboratory. There is little doubt that this early commitment to an "observation and accumulation of data only" policy was helpful in the launching of the new science. Some idea of how critical this move to empiricism was can be gathered from the following quotation taken from Wolman (1973, p. 32): It was not an easy task to transform the old "mental philosophy" into a natural science. Natural science used observation and experimentation; they observed their subject matter, as it were, from without. Wundt's psychology was supposed to study observable stimuli and responses, but there was so much that was unobservable in psychology. Although the launching was eventually a success, there is little doubt that the high hopes of the founding fathers have not materialized.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Joseph R. Royce, Leendert P. Mos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Annals of Theoretical Psychology

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1

  • Editors: Joseph R. Royce, Leendert P. Mos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6450-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-6452-2Published: 15 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6450-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 326

  • Topics: General Psychology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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