Big Book; Small Book: The Search for Unity and Relevance

McKenna, Virgil V.

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“…The 1960s also brought the publication of lengthy, comprehensive first editions by Kendler (1963), McKeachie and Doyle (1966), and Kagan and Havemann (1968 (1958,1966) compact text contained 256 pages in the first edition and 353 pages in the second. A throwback to the systematic theoretical treatises of earlier decades, Hebb's Textbook of Psychology was widely lauded (Bartlett, 1959;McKenna, 1967) but less widely used.…”

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Portraits of a discipline: An examination of introductory psychology textbooks in America.

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Teaching Psychology in America: A History.

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The time has gone by when any one person could hope to write an adequate textbook of psychology. The science has now so many branches, so many methods, so many fields of application, and such an immense mass of data of observation is now on record, that no one person can hope to have the necessary familiarity with the whole.-An author of an introductory psychology textIf we compare general psychology textbooks of today with those of from ten to twenty years ago we note an undeniable trend toward amelio-We are indebted to several people who provided helpful information in responding to our survey discussed in the second half of the chapter, including Solomon Diamond for calling attention to

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Section: Advent Of Encyclopedic Texts ( 1 950s-1960s)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(1958,1966) compact text contained 256 pages in the first edition and 353 pages in the second. A throwback to the systematic theoretical treatises of earlier decades, Hebb's Textbook of Psychology was widely lauded (Bartlett, 1959;McKenna, 1967) but less widely used.…”

Section: Advent Of Encyclopedic Texts ( 1 950s-1960s)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Portraits of a discipline: An examination of introductory psychology textbooks in America.

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Teaching Psychology in America: A History.

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Big Book; Small Book: The Search for Unity and Relevance

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Portraits of a discipline: An examination of introductory psychology textbooks in America.

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