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- For those interested in the history of psychology, as a means accessing the subject as a science, or for general interest the following links are highly recommended.

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A Short History of Psychiatry at Leipzig University - A Short History of Psychiatry at Leipzig University.  4/5
A Short History of Psychotherapy and Hypnosis - It all began with Svengali. 3/5
Brief History of I.Q. Testing and Intelligence - The concept that intelligence could be or should be tested began with a nineteenth-century British scientist, Sir Francis Galton. 3/5
Chronology of Psychology - Street, W. R. (1994). A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Addenda.  3/5
Classics in the History of American Psychology  - Live interviews etc.  4/5
Cognitivism - The cognitive revolution began as a reaction to the reductionist approach the behaviourists explained and interpreted human learning. The proponents of cognitivism felt that the stiimulus-response model in explaining learning was to simplistic and narrow and hence they suggested that through introspection and well designed experimental procedures, it was able to study and explain the more complex mental processes such as language, thought, decision making and problem solving. 4/5
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought. 3/5
Eclecticism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - Is a name given to a group of ancient philosophers who, from the existing philosophical beliefs, tried to select the doctrines that seemed to them most reasonable, and out of these constructed a new system.  3/5
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Founders of Neurology - Brief biographies of dozens of significant contributors to the study of the brain and nervous system, housed at the Department of Neurology, University of Illinois, Chicago.  4/5
Functionalism - Psychology of the Mind.  3/5
History of Cognitive Psychology  3/5
History of Psychology - Published by the American Psychological Association for its Division of the History of Psychology.  3/5
History of Psychology Timeline - In English and Portuguese  3/5
History of Psychology Quiz, by AlleyDog.com   3/5
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Mind & Body Descartes to James Williams  - Resources to support an undergraduate course on the history of psychology.  4/5
Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism  -   A Historical Outline   3/5
The Philosophy of William James - William James (picture), psychologist and philosopher, was born in New York in 1842 and died in 1910. 3/5
The Principles of Psychology - William James (1890) 3/5
The Psychology of Folk Psychology  -  Alvin I. Goldman Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721. 
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The Social Learning Theory of Julian B. Rotter - Julian B. Rotter was born in October 1916 in Brooklyn, NY, the third son of Jewish immigrant parents. Rotter's father ran a successful business until the Great Depression.  3/5
Watson, Rayner and Little Albert - Watson and Rayner (1920) taught a young boy named Albert to become afraid of a gentle white rat. 3/5
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