Contributions to the history of psychology--1916-1921.

Abstract

Contributions to the history of psychology since 1915 fall naturally into two groups. There are, on the one hand, the systematic and the experimental studies which have made the science six years older. There are, on the other hand, the historical and biographical notes and the large and searching retrospections which relate contemporary psychology to earlier stages in the development of the science. It is to an enumeration of these contributions that the present paper is devoted. We cannot, of course, comment in detail upon the character of contemporary psychology, for an historian, speaking of his own times is like the Hawaiian surf-rider who seeks to judge the incoming tide from his experiences while riding a single wave; but it is possible to get a certain amount of information about the current trend of a science by considering events of various kinds which reflect or which have, presumably, influenced its general course. These events taken in conjunction with what appear, at the present moment, to be outstanding experimental and systematic studies may give a suggestion of the history of the last few years.In psychology, as well as in many other sciences, the most important event, during the period under survey, was the World War. The science of psychology was, as all know, well on the way toward complete mobilization for military purposes when the war ended. Since many of the consequences of this reorganization have not yet appeared, a detailed account of this aspect of the period must fall to a future historian. A few facts are, however, available. For example, more than a fourth of the members of the American Psychological Association entered military service in special 411

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“…Indeed, this new interest area has the potential to become a subfield of psychology. I acknowledge the pioneer work done by Hall (1879Hall ( , 1885, Creighton (1902), Griffith (1921Griffith ( , 1922, Cronbach (1957) as well as some of their contemporaries who have also devoted their attention to similar issues. The work done by Slife and colleagues on this interest area (see Slife & Williams, 1997;Slife, 2000aSlife, , 2000b) is also acknowledged.…”