WEB Links to Topics Covered in Chapter 2

Listed below are several links to Web sites that include information about topics covered in this chapter. We will be periodically updating this list to keep it fresh and interesting. If you know of a good site on a topic of relevance to this chapter, we would appreciate hearing about it. Contact Mike Raulin with your suggestions. We will be sure to give you credit for suggesting high quality sites in future updates.

Scientific Theory

• Theory & Psychology
  Theory & Psychology is a quarterly journal devoted to work with a broader meta-theoretical intent, examining such issues as the conceptual frameworks and foundations of psychology, its historical underpinnings, its relation to other human sciences, its methodological commitments, its ideological assumptions and its political and institutional contexts.
  
  

B.F. Skinner

• Skinner's Defense of Behaviorism, Classic Works, Animal Learning Theory and Utopian SocietiesThis page was developed in partial fulfillment a Senior Psychology Seminar, Psychology 97a: The history of Psychology. It researched the professional works of Burrhus Frederick Skinner from his first publication to his concentrated efforts on why Psychology should be a "Science of Behavior."
  
  
• Theorists of Behaviorism
  A brief summary of Skinner's work, complete with an early picture in his laboratory.
  
  
• Behaviorist Theory
  A brief overview of behaviorist theory.
  
  
• A Place for Behaviorism
  A challenge to behavioral approaches to psychotherapy.
  
  

Paul E. Meehl

• Construct Validity in Psychological Tests
  A classic article by Paul Meehl.
  
  
• On the Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables
  A classic article by Paul Meehl..
  
  
• The Nomological Network
  A description of one of the most critical contributions of Paul Meehl and Lee Chronbach to Psychological Science.
  
  
• Paul E. Meehl Brief Biography
  The Listing for Dr. Meehl in the University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology Web Site.
  
  

Electronic Communication and Online Journals

• Journal Listing
  An annotated listing of electronic journals.
  
  

Autism

• Links to Autism Web Sites