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6 Feb 08 – Lloyd Morgan’s Canon, Anthropomorphism, and Mechanomorphism
6 February 2008 On this day in 1852, Conwy Lloyd Morgan was born. Morgan developed a fundamental precept of comparative (animal) psychology often known as “Lloyd Morgan’s Canon”: “In no case may… more →
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6 Feb 08 – Lloyd Morgan’s Canon, Anthropomorphism, and Mechanomorphism
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 6 February 2008 On this day in 1852, Conwy Lloyd Morgan was born. Morgan developed a fundamental pre … more →
5 Feb 08 – Watson/McDougall – The False Dichotomy of Nature/Nurture.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 5 February 2008 On this day in 1924, a debate entitled, “Battle of Behaviorism,” sponsored by the Ps … more →
4 Feb 08 - American Psychological Society and Fragmentation in Psychology.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 4 February 2008 On this day in 1987, the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Directors … more →
3 Feb 08 – Mental Illness: A Social Construction?
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cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 3 February 2008 On this day in 1845, Dorothea Dix presented a document to the Pennsylvania state leg … more →
31 Jan 08 – Neal Miller, Learning and Logical Learning.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 31 January 2008 On this day in 1969, Neal E. Miller’s article entitled, “Learning of Vis … more →
30 Jan 08 – Just Say No? No! It Just Doesn’t Work.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 30 January 2008 On this day in 1986, the then president of the American Psychological Associa … more →
29 Jan 08 – Allport and the Importance (or Detriment) of Avoidance.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 29 January 2008 On this day in 1954, Gordon Allport’s book entitled, The Nature of Prejudice, was pu … more →
28 Jan 08 – Baldwin, The Baldwin Effect, and Human (Non-Deistic) Teleological Evolution.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 28 January 2008 On this day in 1902, Andrew Carnegie endowed the Carnegie Institution. This institut … more →
27 Jan 08 – Gibson, Merleau-Ponty – Perceptual Action/Embodied Agency.
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 27 January 2008 On this day in 1904, James J. Gibson was born. Gibson is known for his research on p … more →
26 Jan 08 – Selye…What is Stress?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 26 January 2008 On this day in 1907, Hans Selye was born. Selye is best known for his work in the ar … more →
24 Jan 08 – Alcoholism – Where’s the Humanity?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 24 January 2008 On this day in 1930, Charles R. Schuster was born. Schuster conducted behavioral ph … more →
23 Jan 08 - Cognitive Psychology - Revolutionary?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 23 January 2008 On this day, in 1970, the journal Cognitive Psychology was first published by Academ … more →
22 Jan 08 – Mental Illness Commitment, Deinstitutionalization - Public Crisis?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 22 January 2008 On this day in the history of psychology, a number of occurrences related to the dev … more →
21 Jan 08 – Gestalt Psychology, Formal Causation, and the Question of Humanity
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cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 21 January 2008 On this day in 1887, Wolfgang Köhler was born. Köhler is best known for his contribu … more →
20 Jan 08 – Children with Emotional Disturbances and Expulsion from School
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 20 January 2008 On this day in 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Honig v. Doe, that schools may … more →
19 Jan 08 – Rosenhan, Pseudopatients, and “Insanity”?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 19 January 2008 On this day in 1973, David Rosenhan’s article entitled, “On Being Sane i … more →
18 Jan 08 – Piaget – Non-Mechanistic Theorist
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 18 January 2008 On this day in 1971, the Jean Piaget Society was incorporated in Pennsylvania, marki … more →
17 Jan 08 – Freud/Jung – Agreement in the Midst of Disagreement
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 17 January 2008 On this day in 1909, Sigmund Freud wrote to Carl Jung predicting that once Americans … more →
16 Jan 08 - Brentano - Opposition to Wundt's Physical Reductionism?
cmburch13 wrote 1 year ago: 16 January 2008 On this day in 1838, Franz Brentano was born. Brentano is known as the founder of … more →
