SOME HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST

Please note that many of these articles are linked directly to the Classics in the History of Psychology website where they were originally presented in an electronic format.  This has been done at the request of Dr. Christopher Green, the developer of that website. Dr. Green has done a fantastic job of making some of the most influential works in psychology available to future generations at the click of a mouse button. I STRONGLY recommend accessing his website through the links section of this site and enjoy this rich window into the minds and works of our predecessors (sorry starting to wax a bit lyrical there!). If any of these links are not functioning I would appreciate people dropping me an e-mail. 

Title
Authors
Presented at
De anima 
(J. A. Smith, Trans.).
Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC) Originally published in Ross, W. D.
(Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle (vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
On memory and reminiscence 
(J. I. Beare, Trans.)
Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC) Originally published in Ross, W. D. (Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle (vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Physical and mental tests James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, & Joseph Jastrow. (1898).  Psychological Review, 5, 172-179.
New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals

Alfred Binet (1905/1916) 

L'Année Psychologique, 12, 191-244. 
Loss of Speech, Chronic Softening and Partial Destruction of the Anterior Left Lobe of the Brain

Pierre Paul Broca (1861)

Bulletin de la Société Anthropologique, 2, 235-238

Remarks on the Seat of the Faculty of Articulated Language, Following an Observation of Aphemia (Loss of Speech)

Pierre Paul Broca (1861)

Bulletin de la Société Anatomique, 6, 330-357.
The time taken up by cerebral operations, Parts 1 & 2 James McKeen Cattell (1886a) Mind, 11, 220-242.
The time taken up by cerebral operations, Part 3 James McKeen Cattell (1886b) Mind, 11,377-392. 
The time taken up by cerebral operations, Part 4 James McKeen Cattell (1887) Mind, 11,524-538. 
Mental tests and measurements

James McKeen Cattell (1890) 

Mind, 15, 373-381.

Construct Validity in Psychological Tests

Lee J. Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl (1955) Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.

Hereditary Talent and Character

Francis Galton (1865) Macmillan's Magazine, 12, 157-166, 318-327.
History of Twins

Francis Galton (1875)

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 155-173.

On the Sacred Disease 

Hippocrates (400 BC)

 
On Injuries of the Head

Hippocrates ( 400 BC)

 
On the witness stand Hugo Münsterberg (1908/1925)  
"General intelligence," objectively determined and measured Charles Spearman (1904).
 
American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions J. Ridley Stroop (1935) Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 643-662.
The uses of intelligence tests Lewis M. Terman (1916) The measurement of intelligence (chapter 1). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
The Vectors of Mind

L. L. Thurstone (1934)

Psychological Review, 41, 1-32.

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

A. M. Turing (1950) 

 Mind 49: 433-460.



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