History 138 - Class 25

History 138: Science in the U.S.

Class 25 (10/21)
Sciences of the mind

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Origin stories

Making a discipline
Beginnings in Europe
American practice
Experimentalism and origin stories
The critics

Consolidating a discipline
Diversity and growth
Practical niches
American exceptionalism, and behaviorism

Names and Terms

Primary	Secondary
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) brass-instrument psychology William James (1842-1910) John B. Watson (1878-1958) "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" (1913)	E. W. Scripture (1864-1945) Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) kymograph introspection John Dewey (1859-1952) Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

Assignment

E. W. Scripture, "The New Psychology," in Thinking, Feeling, Doing (Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1895), 282-295.

How did Scripture tell the story of the origins of the "new psychology"? In what relations did it stand to other disciplines?
In Scripture's day, what practical purposes did his history serve?
With whom was he arguing? How would they have responded to his portrayal?