Basic writings in the history of psychology

The difference between physical and psychological sciences / Galilei Galileo

Fact collecting, induction, experiment, and the utilitarian value of science / Francis Bacon

The heart as a mechanical pump / William Harvey

Rationalism, dualism, subjectivism, and mechanism / Rene Descartes

Psychology and the state, the importance of motivation, the subjectivity of perception, and the nature of association / Thomas Hobbes

Scientific method, mechanical forces, and the experimental study of vision / Isaac Newton

Ideas as dependent upon experience and reflection, and the association of ideas / John Locke

Mentalism, association, and the perception of space / George Berkeley

The empirical origin of ideas, and association, including causality and self / David Hume

Associations of the mindand vibrations of the body / David Hartley

Association and mental chemistry / James and John Stuart Mill

Thenativistic, active structuring of experience and the impossibility of a science of psychology / Immanuel Kant

Ideas as forces, the threshold of consciousness, the essential nature of mathematics, and the significance of apperception / Johann Herbart

Vitalism and the specific energy of nerves / Johannes Muller

Measurement and psychophysics / Ernst Weber and Gustav

Speed of neural impulse, the tripartite theory of colorvision, the place theory of audition, and the empirical theory of space perception / Hermann Von Helmholtz

The science of psychology as the experimental study of mental elements and their creative synthesis / Wilhelm Wundt

Act psychology / Franz Brentano

Experimental research on memory / Hermann Ebbinghaus

The study of thinking, including imageless thought / Oswald Kulpe

Natural selection, and emotions a serviceable associated habits / Charles Darwin

Individual differences expressed in eminence in families, and in mental imagery / Francis Galton

Evolution, adaptation, and habit / Herbert Spencer

Instances of mind in animals / George Romanes

The canon of interpretation animal activity / Conwy Llyod Morgan

The stream of consciousness, its functional and personal character, and on habit,instinct, emotion, and memory / William James

Development / G.Stanley Hall

Individual differences, the quantitative assessment on human capacities, and applications of psychology / James Cattell

Element aristic structural psychology / Edward Titchener

The circular and functional character of the reflex arc / John Dewey

The nature of functional psychology / James Rowland Angell

The definition of psychology, the nature of social psychology, and the significance of instincts / William Mcdougall

Animal and human learning by trial and error and the influence of exercise and effect / Edward Lee Thorndike

Conditioning and the first and second signal systems / Ivan Pavlov

Behaviorism as psychology, its appropriate methods, and his approaches to emotion and conditioning / John B. Watson

Form qualities / Christian Von Ehrenfels

Perceptual organization into wholes and gestalt psychology / Max Wertheimer

Learning, isomorphism, and perception / Wolfgang Kohler

Convergence in development, phenomenology, and the psychophysical field as the basis for gestaltpsychology / Kurt Koffka - - Field theory and action research / Kurt Lewin

Psychoanalysis as a method of investigation, a means of treatment, and a system of psychology / Sigmund Freud

Compensation, inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, and style of life / Alfred Adler

Symbols, the collective unconsciousness, complexes, and types of personality / Carl Jung

Cerebral localization of function, equipotentiality, and mass action / Karl Lashley

Molar, purposive,and cognitive behaviorism / Edward Tolman

Contiguity in learning / Edwin Guthrie

The hypothetico-deductive approach to a behavior system / Clark Hull

Work as a scientist, operant conditioning, and freedom and control / B.F. Skinner.