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Collects Pavlov's lectures from 1930 on, when he had turned his attention in his last years to psychiatry. Numbers the 16 lectures continuously with the 1928 volume, starting here with XLII. Gantt's introduction, which contains biographical material on Pavlov's last years, is a substantial text of 25 pages.
Not in the Norman Catalog or Heirs to Hippocrates. GM 1445 cites Gantt's 1928 English translation.
Presents twenty years of reports & speeches on conditional reflexes; translated into many languages. Pavlov's most influential book on conditional reflexes and the foundation text for modern learning theory. "Pavlov provided most of the terms and laws of the experimental psychology of learning, e.g., conditioning, conditioned reflex, unconditioned reflex, reinforcement, extinction, spontaneous recovery, discrimination, generalization, differentiation, inhibition, disinhibition, and higher-order conditioning. He also provided a model for experimentation ignored in the West until the operant laboratories adopted similar methods in the 1950s" [Sheehy et al., Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, p. 441].
Pavlov's most important work on conditional reflexes, translated into English in 1928 by Horsley Gantt.
The papers are sequentially numbered, with 1-41 in the first volume, and 42-56 in the second volume. The fifteen papers he wrote from 1928 until his death in 1936 are included in volume two, several published here for the first time. Together the two volumes contain all of Pavlov's public lectures and papers on conditioned reflexes. Gantt contributed informative introductions to both volumes (respectively 25 and 21 pages). G[eorgii] Fol'bort (here anglicized as "Volborth"), Pavlov's former assistant at the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad, who did the German translation of the first volume, collaborated with Gantt in its English translation, correcting the early drafts and contributing many of the footnotes. W. B. Cannon contributed a brief introduction.
Facsimile reprint of the NY 1928 first edition in English.
GM-5 #1022 (1897 1st Russian edition); Heirs to Hippocrates 2129 (1898 1st German). The second English edition adds two chapters, conforms all Russian names to English language equivalents, and includes additional material by Pavlov's students and ex-students.The work for which Pavlov won the Nobel prize and that led directly to his discovery of conditional reflexes. I have long considered this the classic exposition of scientific method in the medical sciences, even better than Bernard's Introduction to Experimental Medicine. Pavlov's description of his experimental methods is concise and elegant. "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments" [GM].
GM-5 #1022 (1st Russian edition); Heirs to Hippocrates 2129 (1898 German edition).
The only easily accessible Western edition of the original Russian text.
Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in physiology for the work reported in this volume - work which led directly to his discovery of the conditional reflex. GM 1022" "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric & pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments". The English translation was preceded by translations into German and French editions.
Attempst to explain the efficacy of hynotherapy and suggestion therapy in Pavlovian terms.
Contains Sigmund Koch's special review of "Hull's Principles of Behavior"; C. C. Peters' "Interaction in Analysis of Variance Interpreted as Intercorrelations"; and two papers on psychology and the war.
Contains Walter S. Hunter's "The Psychological Study of Behavior"; Clark L. Hull's "The Goal Gradient Hypothesis and Maze Learning"; Harry Helson's "Studies in the Theory of Perception. I. The Clearness-Context Theory"; J. P. Guilford's "A Generalized Psychophysical Law."
Contains Lashley & Marjorie Wade's "The Pavlovian Theory of Generalization"; Cyril Burt & C. S. Myers' obit of Spearman; Hebb's "Emotion in Man and Animal: An Analysis of the Intuitive Proceses of Recognition"; William A. Hunt & Iris Stevenson's "Psychooogical Testing n Military Clinical Psychology: II. Personality Testing"; Gordon Allport's "Personalistic Psychology as Science: A Reply."
Contains S. S. Stevens' "On the Psychophysical Law"; Frank Restle's "Theory of Selective Learning with Probable Reinforecements"; H. Tajfel's "Value and the Perceptual Judgment of Magnitude"; D. E. Broadbent's "A Mechanical Model for Human Attention and Immediate Memory."
Contributions by Boring, Landis, Eysenck, Albert Ellis, Wolpe, et al.
Contains William D. Rohwer, Jr.'s "Elaboration and Learning in Childhood and Adolescence"; Jum C. Nunnally & L. Charles Lemond's "Exploratory Behavior and Human Development"; Robert C. Hulsebus's "Operant Conditioning of Infant Behavior: A Review"; G. Mitchell & L. Schroers's "Birth Order and Parental Experince in Monkeys and Man"; Harriet L. Rheingold & Carol O. Eckerman's "Fear of the Stranger: A Critical Examination"; Charles C. Spiker & Joan H. Cantor's "Applications of Hull-Spence Theory to the Transfer of Discrimination Learning in Children."
Roback History of American Psychology, p. 79; Fay American Psychology Before William James, pp. 140-145. Rush abandoned in the second edition the simplified orthography of the first edition (which now makes the first edition difficult to read, although it was a pioneering attempt at spelling reform).An important proto-behaviorist American text on thought, speech, language, and music. Rush, the seventh son of Benjamin Rush and also a physician (albeit one who made a fortune in commerce) regarded thought as subvocal speech.
Skinner's first psychological book and a milestone in the history of American psychology (albeit one whose effect was considerably delayed). 800 copies of the first edition were printed in the summer of 1938 and published in September, of which 500 were bound in black cloth. The remaining 300 were bound in light green cloth and issued in the mid-1940s. Both issues are rare. A small number of copies (probably no more than 5 or 6) were sent out by Skinner as presentation copies.
The papers added for the second edition are: "The Design of Cultures;" "Why We need Teaching Machines;" and "Pigeons in a Pelican."
An early behaviorist paper three years before his 1938 Behavior of Organisms.
With an informative 12-page introduction written for the paperback edition, titled "Walden Two Revisited," in which Skinner discusses the origins of the book and its subsequent influence.
Contains five chapters on institutions for the retarded plus sections on prisons, mental institutions, remedial classrooms, etc.
Papers read at a 1957 conference organized by the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, RSFSR and by the Departments of Psychology and Higher Nervous Activity of the M. V. Lomonsov Moscow State University.
Watson's University of Chicago doctoral dissertation (taken under Angell) and his first book is considered the first modern scientific book on rat behavior. In it Watson described the relationship between brain myelinization and learning ability in rats at different ages. Watson showed that the degree of myelinization was largely unrelated to learning ability. [adapted from the Wikipedia entry on Watson].
After this (presumably) subscription issue, marketed in book form with the People's Institute imprint, then as a trade book with Norton's imprint. The People's Institute Publishing Company was a branch of Norton.
Originally issued as a boxed set of 12 pamphlets by the Peoples' Institute.
GM-5 #4987.
The major exposition of Watson's behaviorist views.
GM-5 #4987.
Watson writes "In the August issue of Psychological Abstracts, there is reviewed Schools of Psychology - A Complimentary Pattern. Can you tell me where I can get a reprint of the article? I would appreciate this very much indeed." Signed "John B Watson".
- Rosenzweig (1907-2004), who became professor of psychology at Washington University in 1948, is himself of some note in the history of American psychology. He was a classmate and close friend of B. F. Skinner's at Harvard. At the time of this letter he was affiliated with Worcester State Hospital and Clark University in Massachusetts. A 1935 paper of his posited what is now called "the Dodo Bird hypothesis," namely that virtually any brand of psychotherapy can be successful, and that all that are share underlying factors.
- Watson, of course, was the founder of behaviorism (at least as it became important in psychology), beginning with his famous 1913 paper. Kicked out of Hopkins in 1920 because of the affair he was having with his graduate student assistant Rosalie Rayner (whom he married after his divorce), Watson was hired the same year by Stanley B. Resor, who had in 1915 bought the J. Walter Thompson Company, possibly the largest advertising agency. Watson had moved from Thompson to the William Esty Company in 1936, from which he retired in 1947 after never having gotten along with Esty.
19 articles based on papers orginally given at a conference at the Center for Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, CA. The papers analyze operant conditioning and behaviorism from the perspective of the historian, psychologist, philosopher, logician, computer scientist, brain physiologist, and biologist. Contains papers by Karl Pribram, Max Black, Arthur Jensen, Arnold Toynbee as well as the first appearance of B. F. Skinner's "Reply to My Critics".
A scathing & intelligent criticism of Watson, Freud, McDougall & others.
Section 1: Behaviorism and Conditioning (A-O)
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