On this page you’ll find resources covering the history of psychology as well as some of the main approaches for understanding thought and behavior. If I’ve missed a good resource, please share it in the comments section!

General Resources

• History & Approaches Key Terms list

• History & Approaches Pinterest Board

• OpenStax Introductory Chapter

• Classics in the History of Psychology Page

Video Resources

Specific Concepts

• nativism
  • Wikipedia page
• philosophical empiricism
  • Wikipedia page
• nature/nurture debate
  • Wikipedia page
  • John Locke “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
  • Historical Controversies Surrounding Innateness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• René Descartes
  • Wikipedia page
• dualism
  • Wikipedia page
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• monism
  • Wikipedia page
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• phrenology
  • Why Do We Still Learn about Phrenology? 
  • Wikipedia page

• Franz Josef Gall
  • Wikipedia page

• Structuralism
• Wilhelm Wundt
  • Wikipedia page
  • Principles of Physiological Psychology (1902)
• Edward Titchener
  • Wikipedia page
  • Description of the psychology laboratory at Cornell
•  introspection
  • The schema of introspection (Titchener, 1912)
•  Margaret Floy Washburn
  • Wikipedia page
• G. Stanley Hall
  • Wikipedia page
• functionalism
• William James
  • Wikipedia page
  • The Principles of Psychology (1890) (considered the first psychology textbook)
• Mary Whiton Calkins
  • Wikipedia page
• Charles Darwin
  • Wikipedia page
  • On the Origin of Species (Project Gutenberg)
  • natural selection (Wikipedia)

• psychoanalytic approach
  • Wikipedia page
• Sigmund Freud
  • Wikipedia page
  • unconscious (Wikipedia)

• behaviorism
  • Wikipedia page
• B.F. Skinner
  • Wikipedia page

• Modern Approaches
  • Approaches summary

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