How I Teach the History and Philosophy of
Psychology
Jeff Thompson
Chair, Department of Psychology
Heritage University
Toppenish, WA
OMG! The HISTORY of Psychology?!
• 25 Centuries of dead white
men?!
1892: The American Psychological Association is
Founded
“Sets of Four” in History
Cognitive Style
Kozhevnikov (2014); Riding (2000)
The Physiology of Cognitive Style
Schools of Psychology as Cognitive Styles
Temperament
(Keirsey)
Knowledge Source Way of Seeing the Cognitive Style
(“Epistemology”),
World
(Riding +
Reasoning Method (“Worldviews” of Kozhevnikov)
Stephen Pepper)
“School” of
Psychology
Exemplars
RATIONAL
Logical
Deduction
Puzzle
Logical (Factual)
Verbalizer
Gestalt,
Cognitive
Plato
Köhler
IDEALIST
Introspective
Intuition
Tree
Metaphorical
(Emotional)
Verbalizer
Humanistic
Homer
Maslow, Rogers
GUARDIAN
Sensory Data,
Induction
Machine
Spatial Visualizer
Behaviorist
Democritus,
Watson,
Skinner
ARTISAN
Utility,
Effectiveness
Action in Time
Object Visualizer
Pragmatist
Aristotle,
James, Koch,
{Wundt}