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References for CHIP lectures (8-13) by Steve Draper

By Steve Draper, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Course textbooks

The first two textbooks mentioned in this section (besides being good coverage for the historical lectures (1-7)) are of some use for my lectures.

The textbook for the course is: Brysbaert & Rastle Historical And Conceptual Issues In Psychology (Harlow : Pearson/Prentice Hall) [GU lib: Psychology B351 BRY E-book ]

There are two editions: First edition (2009) Second edition (2013).

In general, the main chapters relating to my lectures (8-13) are chs. 8 & 9 (1st edition) or 9 & 10 (2nd edition).
ch.7 (1st ed.) ch.8 (2nd ed.) concerns applied psychology.
ch.10 (1st ed.) ch.11 (2nd ed.) is on qualitative vs. quantitative. It makes some relevant points. One is about whether philosophy of science has actually been bad for psychology. Another is about how quantitative methods especially experiments over-emphasise testing hypotheses without saying how you create worthwhile hypotheses; and how qualitative methods are about induction and how it creates good hypotheses, even if it cannot test them definitively.
ch.11 (1st ed.) ch.12 (2nd ed.) discusses biological vs. psychological vs. social influences. You might want to think about how this partly relates to, but is not the same as, my distinction betwen types of data (not "influence"): physiological, introspective, and behavioural.

Another excellent book is:
Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2012). Modern Psychology - A History (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning) [Library: Psychology B380 SCHUL3]

Another good book, which helps for some of lectures 8-13:
Harré, Rom (2006) Key thinkers in psychology [electronic resource in the library] (London : SAGE)

Other reading related mainly to lectures 8-13

All the references mentioned in my lectures (and probably a few more I didn't mention) should be listed below. I am not recommending that everyone read these, but for any who wish to follow up points in my lectures. For general, compressed, reading related to my lectures, see above for which of the text book chapters may help.

Most (not quite all) of the following are on the library reading list; and from there direct links to the document are much better done; although they are not in alphabetic order of the author. However here they are alphabetic, one or two new ones added, but the direct links are mostly missing.

References

Bloom, B.S. (1984) "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring" Educational Researcher vol.13 no.6 (Jun. - Jul., 1984) pp.4-16 www.jstor.org/stable/1175554

Brown,George W. & Harris, Tirril (1978) Social origins of depression: a study of psychiatric disorder in women (London: Tavistock Publications) [GU Lib Level 5 Medicine RN71 1978-B]

Draper, S.W. (1988) "What's going on in everyday explanation?" in C.Antaki (ed.) Analysing everyday explanation: a casebook of methods (Sage Publications: London) pp.15-31. [Not in GU library]

Draper, S.W. (2012) Correlation and causation

Feynman, R.P. (1985) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures Of A Curious Character (London: Norton) [GU lib: physics A20.F37 1985-F]

Gibson, J.J.
The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception (Hillsdale ; London : Erlbaum, 1986.) [GUL5, Psychology D230 GIB]
The Perception Of The Visual World Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1950. [GUL5, Psychology D230 GIB2]
The Senses Considered As Perceptual Systems London : Allen & Unwin, 1968. [GUL5, Psychology D380 GIB2]

Hailman, J.P. (1967) "The ontogeny of an instinct" Behavior Supplement 15.

Hailman, J.P. (1969) "How an instinct is learned" Scientific American vol.221 no.6 pp.98-106

Hakala, J. & Ylijoki, O.-H. (2001) "Research for whom? Research orientations in three academic cultures" Organization vol.8 no.2 pp.373-380

Hanlon, Phil: Culture, well-being, and health (Phil Hanlon): Papers Podcasts (videos) another video

Keller. I have lost my original reference. But if you google "Keller reductionism" in google-Scholar, then you find two different Kellers who have published on this in relation to psychology. http://scholar.google.co.uk/

Kieras, D.E. & Bovair,S. (1984) "The role of a mental model in learning to operate a device" Cognitive Science vol.8 no.3 pp.255-273

Kline,S.J. (1985) "Innovation is not a linear process" Research Management vol.28 no.4 pp.36-45 http://arldocdel.iii.com/32964.pdf

Kline,S.J. (1995) Conceptual foundations for multidisciplinary thinking (Stanford UP: Stanford CA)

Knox et al. (2003) Brit. Medical journal vol.327 p.1376 doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7428.1376 [A public health success in mental health.]

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, W Kyle Simmons, Patrick SF Bellgowan, and Chris I Baker (2009) Nat Neurosci. 2009 May 12(5) pp.535-540 doi:10.1038/nn.2303 [Criticism about whether many neuroscience results are in fact valid, or made on the basis of faulty stats and methods.]

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1962) The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions (London : University of Chicago Press) [GU lib: Gen Sci M8 1970-K]

Latour, Bruno (various) [Most of his books and papers offer a different view of the process of science.]
Latour, Bruno (1999) Pandora's hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies LibRecord

Leroi, Armand (2011) Aristotle's Lagoon
Leroi, Armand M. (2014) The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (Bloomsbury Publishing) ISBN:9781408836217

Maslow, A.H. (1943) "A theory of human motivation" Psychological Review vol.50 no.4 pp.370-396. Copy wikiPedia

Nield, T (2007) Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (London: Granta) See pp.131-133, and 143-145.

Papert, S. & Harel, I. (1991) "Situating Constructionism" Constructionism (Ablex Publishing Corporation) pp.193-206. Retrieved from http://www.papert.org/articles/SituatingConstructionism.html

Perkins, K.K. and Wieman,C.E. (2005) "The Surprising Impact of Seat Location on Student Performance" The Physics Teacher vol.43 January pp.30-33 [This is an example of an experiment without a theory: they show there is an effect, but do not offer an explanation.]

Petroski, Henry (1985) To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (London: Macmillan) [GU lib: Engineering PA450 1985-P]

Petroski, Henry (2008) Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press)

Popper, K. (1972) The logic of scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson) [GU lib: Gen Sci M15 1968-P]

Popper, K. (1969) Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge (London: Routledge) [GU lib: Gen Sci M8 1969-P]

Russell, Bertrand (1913) Theory of knowledge ??

Sacks, O. (1992) Migraine (London: Picador) [GU lib: Medicine RB96 1992-S]

Shayer, M. (1992) "Problems and issues in intervention studies" in Demetriou,A., Shayer,M. & Efklides,A. (eds.) Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development: implications and applications for education ch.6 pp.107-121 (London : Routledge)

Spinney, Laura (2011) "Boy brain, girl brain: How the sexes act differently" New Scientist, no.2802, 8 March 2011 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928021.400-boy-brain-girl-brain-how-the-sexes-act-differently.html

Veyne, P. (1976) Bread and circuses (London: Penguin) [GU lib: Level 10 Classics RA260 VEY]

Wall, Patrick (1999) Pain : the science of suffering [GU lib 5, Medicine RF8 1999-W]

White, Michael (1997) Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix books)

By the way: Looking up psychology terms and concepts

My advice is: whenever you want to find out what a psychology term means, first look it up in the index of a first year psychology textbook. Good textbooks, of the kind selected for first year courses, are very good for this:

They will give you a short explanation (e.g. half a page), aimed not at an expert, nor at the general public, but at a psychology student. Reading more detailed and technical material on the concept is often much easier after reading a simple version to get you oriented.
These introductory textbooks have an enormous list of references, up to date at the time the book was published: so going on from the textbook to get more detail is made easy.

You might be in this position for several reasons:

You heard a term in a lecture that wasn't explained but seems from the context to be a well-known term in psychology e.g. "massed vs. distributed practice".
You realise you are not in fact sure of the exact meaning of a term that seems familiar e.g. "reliable" (which has a different meaning in psychology and stats from its meaning in engineering, science, and everyday life), "cognitive dissonance", "borderline personality disorder" (which in fact is not about personality in the Individual Differences sense, and is not in any normal sense borderline).
You are starting to look at a topic for a research project, in areas you haven't been taught; and want to find a way into the literature of a fairly broad area e.g. "self-efficacy".

If you are an undergraduate you probably already have a first year textbook: go back and use it for the things above. If not, a second hand copy of such a textbook would be useful if it's not very old. The library always has copies of such textbooks: and in fact, has copies of textbooks now not used but still recent. They will be on the library shelves around Shelf-mark Psychology B481.
(The current textbook at this university is: Holt, N., Bremner, A., Sutherland, E., Vliek, M., Passer, M.V., and Smith, R.E., (2012). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour.)

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