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REALISM APPLIED TO
THE DISCLPINE OF
PSYCHOLOGY

1. A 1975 paper that acknowledges the influence of the realist Anderson and his students in the footnote, and, in the discussion, argues for a Galilean realist approach rather than a Copernican "convenient-fictions" appoach
2. A 1977 paper that stresses the conflict of ideas and of the development of critical skills in the teaching of advanced undergraduate research in psychology
3. More on the Popperian Approach to OR Theories (1981)
4. A 1983 unpublished review of "The Meaning of Behavior" written by realist psychologist John Maze, a student of John Anderson, by two of Maze's (realist) students, John Furedy and Diane Riley
5. Operational, Analogical And Genuine Definitions Of Psychophysiology (1983)
6. A 1986 paper that emphasises the realist distinction between higher education and indoctrinational or merely instructional education, and considers ways of strengthening the former, Socratic sort of education
7. A 1987 Hungarian translation of the 1986 paper
8. Human Pavlovian Autonomic Conditioning and the Cognitive Paradigm (1987)


It may have been the inspiration, but as Diane and I
argue, it's not the whole story

9. Debate on Importance of Anderson's Realist Philosophy for Psychology (1988-9)
10. Reflections on Human Pavlovian Decelerative Heart-rate Conditioning with Negative Tilt as US: Alternative Approaches (1992)
11. A 1993 chapter advocating a realist approach to psychophysiology that stresses the importance of attempting to differentiate among psychological functions
12. Velvet Totalitarianism on Canadian Campuses: Subverting Effects on the Teaching of, and Research in, the Discipline of Psychology (1997)
13. Is Instrumentalism the Right Method for Psychological Science? (2000)
14. Abstract of a conference paper criticising the computer-metaphorical approach of current "cognitive", information-processing psychology (2000), also satirized in the cartoon below
    
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15. An influential early formulation of the information processing approach:
    Norman's 1969 "Memory and Attention: An intorduction to human information processing" (note also the beginnings of the human/animal split that, prior to the "cognitive revolution" was explicitly denied even in introductory psychology classes)
16. An epistemologically arrogant community of contending scholars: A pre-Socratic perspective on the past, present, and future of the Pavlovian society (2001)
17. An Andersonian Analysis of Contemporary Concepts in Psychology: Lecture by Associate professor Joel Mitchell, University of Sydney (sent to JJF in 2004)

DANIEL BERLYNE
(1924-76):
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