Additional Authors Include Robert A. Patton, Yale D. Koskoff, Paul E. Huston, Nathan W. Shock, And Hans J. Eysenck.

Contributing Authors Include Robert Leeper, Harry Harlow, James Gibson, And Many Others. Eleven Lectures Under The Auspices Of The Department Of Psychology In The School Of The Liberal Arts Of The University Of Pittsburgh, Delivered During March 12 And 13, 1959.

Additional Contributors Are James J. Gibson, David Krech, David McK. Rioch, W. S. McCulloch, And Herbert Feigl.

Additional Contributors Are James J. Gibson, David Krech, David McK. Rioch, W. S. McCulloch, And Herbert Feigl.

THE CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY SERIES Richard M. Elliott, Editor READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY THE CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY SERIES EDITED BY RICHARD M. ELLIOTT, PhD., University of Minnesota LEARNING MORE BY EFFECTIVE STUDY, by Charles and Dorothy Bird. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Charles Bird. HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Edwin G. Boring. THE PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by Edwin G. Boring, SENSATION AND PERCEPTION IN THE HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Edwin G. Boring. BEAUTY AND HUMAN NATURE, by Albert R. Chandler. GREAT EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY, Rev. Ed., by Henry E. Garrett. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, znd Ed., by Florence L. Goodenough. EXPERIMENTAL CHILD STUDY, by Florence L. Goodenough and John E. Anderson. PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, by S. R. Hathaway. SEVEN PSYCHOLOGIES, by Edna Heidbreder. CONDITIONING AND LEARNING, by Ernest R. Hilgard and Donald G. Marquis. HYPNOSIS AND SUGGESTIBILITY, by Clark L. Hull. PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOR, by Clark L. Hull. THE WILD BOY OF AVEYRON, by Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, translated by George and Muriel Humphrey. DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE, by Harold E. Jones. THE DEFINITION OF PSYCHOLOGY, by Fred S. Keller. THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF PERSONALITY, by Ralph Linton. CHILD GUIDANCE PROCEDURES, by Members of the Staff of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago. PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, by A. T. Poffenberger, THE BEHAVIOR OF ORGANISMS AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS, by B. F. Skinner. THE DYNAMICS OF HUMAN ADJUSTMENT, by Percival M. Symonds. DIAGNOSING PERSONALITY AND CONDUCT, by Percival M. Symonds. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, by Percival M. Symonds. HUMAN LEARNING, by Edward L. Thomdike, INTRODUCTION TO METHODS INEXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Miles A. Tinker, znd Edition. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES, by Leona E. Tyler. DRIVES TOWARD WAR, by Edward C. Tolman. THEORIES OF LEARNING, by Ernest R. Hilgard. Readings in the History of PSYCHOLOGY COMPILED AND EDITED BY WAYNE DENNIS University of Pittsburgh APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS, Inc. New York PREFACE THE only set of readings in the history of psychology which has been compiled prior to the present volume is Rands The Classical Psy chologists, which was published in 1912. It has long been out of print. Nor would a reprinting of Rand meet contemporary needs. Psychology has changed greatly in the past thirty-six years. Several of the more ac tive schools of psychology were barely born, or were unborn, at the time the earlier readings were published. In another respect, also, The Classical Psychologists is out-dated. While recent psychological progress has been achieved primarily through investigation and experimentation, Rands book is devoted chiefly to the philosophical backgrounds of psychology. The readings end approximately where modern psychological research began. The most recent authors cited by Rand are Wundt and James. In teaching a course in the development of modern psychology, one feels continually that the student needs to read many of the classical con tributions in psychology. It is not sufficient for the psychologist-in-train ing to read about Bell, Weber, Galton, Binet and Watson to cite some examples, he should read the very words of these authors. His education should not be second-hand. Yet many of the works with which he should make himself familiar are not available in every library. If certain ones are on the shelves of thelibrary, they exist, unfortunately, in single, fre quently rare, copies which cannot be exposed year after year to classroom use. The classics in psychology must be reproduced if they are to be studied. The aim of the present compilation is to render many of them, or selections from them, available in one volume. In selecting the materials to be included, a provisional list of forty-eight titles was first compiled...