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A history of psychology in autobiography volume III.James Rowland Angell.

A history of psychology in autobiography volume III.: James Rowland Angell. After several years of delay, I am attempting to comply with the request of the editor of this series and set forth something of my life and intellectual history. If an account of my life as a psychologist has any enduring value, it will be for the light it may throw on an interesting and critical period of American psychology with which I was actively identified. I was born May 8, 1869, in Burlington, Vermont. In high school, I followed the conventional classical course. When I got to college I went on with the classical course, but after my freshman year I began to have opportunity for election and seized the earliest opportunity to get into logic and psychology. The logic which was based on Jevons' well-known little book interested me, though it did not greatly excite me. But the psychology (Dewey's recently published text) instantly opened up a new world, which it seemed to me I had been waiting for, and for the first time I felt a deep and pervasive sense of the intellectual importance of the material I was facing. With that experience began my real intellectual life, which ultimately led me on into my profession. My name has been so often connected with the development of the so-called functionalist position in psychology that I provide a further statement on that subject in this autobiography. I am sure that any influence I may have exerted directly on the course of psychological development in my own investigations and publications is less than that which I have exerted indirectly through my students who received their training under me and most of whom matriculated for the doctor's degree. Five of the members of my doctorate group have held the presidency of the American Psychological Association. To have such young people under one's charge is an extremely rewarding experience. I count my contact with them as among the most precious of my memories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A history of psychology in autobiography volume III.James Rowland Angell.

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After several years of delay, I am attempting to comply with the request of the editor of this series and set forth something of my life and intellectual history. If an account of my life as a psychologist has any enduring value, it will be for the light it may throw on an interesting and critical period of American psychology with which I was actively identified. I was born May 8, 1869, in Burlington, Vermont. In high school, I followed the conventional classical course. When I got to college I went on with the classical course, but after my freshman year I began to have opportunity for election and seized the earliest opportunity to get into logic and psychology. The logic which was based on Jevons' well-known little book interested me, though it did not greatly excite me. But the psychology (Dewey's recently published text) instantly opened up a new world, which it seemed to me I had been waiting for, and for the first time I felt a deep and pervasive sense of the intellectual importance of the material I was facing. With that experience began my real intellectual life, which ultimately led me on into my profession. My name has been so often connected with the development of the so-called functionalist position in psychology that I provide a further statement on that subject in this autobiography. I am sure that any influence I may have exerted directly on the course of psychological development in my own investigations and publications is less than that which I have exerted indirectly through my students who received their training under me and most of whom matriculated for the doctor's degree. Five of the members of my doctorate group have held the presidency of the American Psychological Association. To have such young people under one's charge is an extremely rewarding experience. I count my contact with them as among the most precious of my memories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Dec 11, 2006

Keywords: James Rowland Angell; history; functionalism; autobiography; psychology

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