A Laboratory Course in Physiological Psychology: Part I  

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SANFORD, EDMUND C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The American Journal of Psychology vol. 100 no. 3-4 (1987), page 433.
Topik: Laboratory Course; Psychology
Fulltext: 1422688.pdf (1.02MB)

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Edmund C. Sanford's "laboratory course" may not be as familiar to readers of the American Journal of Psychology as most of the other benchmark articles. However, this article and the others in the series comprise one of the most significant contributions in the Journal's history. Sanford's title is misleading; he meant "physiological" in the way Wilhelm Wundt did, as synonymous with "experimental." The series of articles, beginning in the 1891 volume, is the earliest guide in English to the teaching of laboratory psychology. At the time this series began, most teachers of courses in experimental psychology, then just coming into vogue in American colleges and universities, had little or no training in experimental methods. For that crucial decade in the 1890s when experimental instruction was expanding, first in graduate and finally in undergraduate programs, Sanford's "laboratory course" was the primary source. In 1894, Sanford compiled the first group of Journal articles into a book, A Laboratory Course in Experimental Psychology. The second set of articles was never published separately. It was Sanford's "laboratory course" that gave E. B. Titchener the idea for producing his own laboratory guide, the famous four-volume Experimental Psychology, known as Titchener's manuals. Although they would eclipse Sanford's earlier and less spectacular attempt, Sanford's "laboratory course" articles represent a major achievement in the development of experimental psychology in America.

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