HISTORICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DARWINISM FOR

SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY

(PSYCH 515)

• VARIABILITY
   
  • Measurement of Individual Differences-Mental tests/Intelligence tests

    Galton, Binet, Cattell, Stern, Terman

   

• NATURE VERSUS NURTURE
   
  • Instinct versus Learning
  • William James, William McDougall, etc.
  • Mendelism and Genetic Determinism

FUNCTIONALISM IN AMERICA
 
• William James, John Dewey, James Angell

 

DEVELOPMENT AS HISTORICAL CHANGE
 
• Recapitulation Theory- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

  G. S. Hall, Freud, Piaget?

• Implications for experimental method

 

PHYLOGENETIC CONTINUITY AND DESCENT

 

• Humanity's animal nature
• The Animal Mind
  • Margaret Washburn
  • Use of Animals to Investigate Humans
    • E. L. Thorndike, Pavlov, Behaviorism

   

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