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Introducing Psychology


Introducing Psychology

  • Nigel Benson
  • Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books.

Description: Introduction to psychology for general public and students.

Importance: Popular, International best-selling, 14 languages

Principles of Psychology

Description: This monumental text can be view as the beginning of psychology.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy


The Interpretation of Dreams

Description: Dream interpretation became a part of psychoanalysis due to this seminal work.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Personality


A Theory of Human Motivation

Description: In this paper the Maslow's hierarchy of needs was described.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Behaviorism


Psychology as the behaviorist views it

Description: With his behaviorism, Watson put the emphasis on external behaviour of people and their reactions on given situations, rather than the internal, mental state of those people. In his opinion, the analysis of behaviours and reactions was the only objective method to get insight in the human actions.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Cognitivism


Functionalism


Gestalt psychology


Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement

  • Max Wertheimer
  • Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement, 1912.

Description: Considered the founding article for Gestalt psychology. The article described the Phi phenomenon.

Importance:

Humanistic psychology


Phenomenology


  • Medard Boss, Existential Foundations of Medicine and Psychology (Jason Aronson, 1984; ISBN 1568214200)
  • Medard Boss, Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (Da Capo Pr, 1982; ISBN 0306797089)
  • Medard Boss, The Analysis of Dreams (Philosophical Library, 1958)
  • Amedeo Giorgi, Psychology as a Human Science (Harper & Row, 1970)
  • R.D. Laing, The Divided Self (Penguin, 1965)
  • Robert D. Romanyshyn, Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life (Trivium, 2001)
  • Ernesto Spinelli, The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology (Sage, 2nd Edition, 2005)
  • Erwin Straus, Man, Time and World (Humanities Press, 1982)
  • Erwin Straus, The Primary World of the Senses (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
  • Jan Hendrick van den Berg, A Different Existence (Duquesne University Press, 1973)

Structuralism


Cognitive psychology


Description: A recent comprehensive collection of survey chapters on topics in higher cognition.

Evolutionary psychology


Evolutionary developmental psychology

Evolutionary educational psychology

Clinical psychology


Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Importance:

Developmental psychology


Educational psychology


Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Pelletier, R. (1995). Cognitive tutors: Lessons learned. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 167-207.

Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational psychologist, 28, 117-148.

Cronbach, L. J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684.

Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.

Mayer, R. E. (1997). Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions? Educational Psychologist, 32, 1-19.

Palincsar, A. S. (1998). Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345-375.

Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines. Science, 128(3330), 969-977.

Spearman, Charles. (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured. American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.

Sweller, J., van Merrienboer, J. J., & Paas, F. G. (1998). Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review, 10, 251-296.

Terman, Lewis M. (1916). The uses of intelligence tests. From The measurement of intelligence (chapter 1). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Thorndike, Edward L. (1910). The contribution of psychology to education. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1, 5-12.

Thurstone, L. L. (1934). The vectors of mind. Psychological Review, 41, 1-32.

Forensic psychology


Forensic Psychology

Description: 47 forensic psychologists cover the theory and practice of forensic psychology in both civil and criminal litigation.

Importance: Introduction

On the Witness Stand

Description: Considered the first publication in applying psychology to legal matters. Among the topics discussed are reliability of witnesses' testimony and memory, lie detection and interrogation methods on suspects of crime.

Importance:

Industrial and organizational psychology


Neuropsychology


Social psychology


Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday.

Description: With this book, Gordon Allport put forth one of the most influential theories of prejudice reduction, known as the Contact Hypothesis. The basic idea behind the Contact Hypothesis is that increasing contact between members of different groups is the foundation for reducing intergroup hostility. This book is important for many other reasons as well, and is recommended reading for anyone interested in the areas of prejudice and discrimination.

Importance: Breakthrough, Influence

Tajfel, H., & Turner, J.C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W.G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33-47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Description: This is a classic paper on Social Identity Theory (SIT). SIT is one of the most prominent and influential theories concerning intergroup relations and has spawned massive amounts of research. The main point behind SIT is that the social context is the key factor shaping how different social groups are perceived and treated.

Importance: Breakthrough, Influence

Health psychology


Critical psychology


Post-cognivitist psychology


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