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Opposing behaviourism, McDougall argued that behaviour was generally goal-oriented and purposive, an approach he called hormic psychology. The term “hormic” comes from hormḗ (ὁρμή), the Greek word for "impulse" and according to Hilgard (1987) was drawn from the work of T. P. Nunn, a British colleague (Larson, 2014).
William McDougall (1871–1938) was one of the giants of early psychology, yet his legacy has gone largely unheralded, and his name is seldom recalled outside students of the history of psychology. His brand of psychology, termed “hormic” psychology, serves as one of the foundational frameworks for understanding the wide range of human ...
William McDougall (ur. 1871 w Chadderton, zm. 1938) – brytyjski psycholog. Studiował w St John’s College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge, a w latach 1898-1903 był członkiem tego kolegium . W latach 1904–1920 wykładał filozofię na Uniwersytecie w Oksfordzie. Od 1920 działał w Stanach Zjednoczonych.
The 20th American edition, published in 1926, 12 years prior to his death in 1938 and 30th British edition, published in 1950, 12 years after his death. The later edition, is essentially a reprinting of McDougall's last revision, prepared at Duke University in 1936, as the 23rd edition .
24 lis 2023 · William McDougall. As a British-American psychologist and the founder of instigated psychology, William McDougall (1871–06–22 ~ 1938–11–28) was born in Lancashire, England, and died in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
To recapture these discussions and provide some insight into the period of radical behaviorism, the "world of purpose" is reconstructed as it was viewed by McDougall, at 1 extreme, by Watson and Kuo at the other, and by Perry, Tolman, and Warren, who attempted to effect some compromise.
22 sie 2016 · A review of McDougall's intellectual and professional ties, evolving outside public controversy, highlights persistent American attention to natural agency and complicates arguments voiced by contemporaries in favor of nurture.
