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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. "The Nature of the Sentiments and the Constitution of Some of the Complex Emotions." ... 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 ...
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.
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 ...
It would, then, be otiose in this year of grace to defend or advocate purposive psychology in the vague sense of all psychology that recognises purposiveness, takes account of foresight and of urges, impulses, cravings, desires, as motives of action.
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.
William McDougall was a British-born U.S. psychologist influential in establishing experimental and physiological psychology and author of An Introduction to Social Psychology (1908; 30th ed. 1960), which did much to stimulate widespread study of the basis of social behaviour.
