Journal•ISSN: 0022-5061
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences
Wiley-Blackwell
About: Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Theoretical psychology. It has an ISSN identifier of 0022-5061. Over the lifetime, 2049 publications have been published receiving 30712 citations. The journal is also known as: History of the behavioral sciences.
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TL;DR: It is proposed that the classificatory scheme is still useful in the assessment of contemporary emphases in psychology, such as the present prominence of cognitive psychology to the relative neglect of affection and conation.
Abstract: The tripartite classification of mental activities into cognition, affection, and conation originated in the German faculty psychology of the eighteenth century, but was adopted by the association psychologists of the nineteenth century of Scotland, England, and America. Its influence extended into the twentieth century through the writings of William McDougall. It is proposed that the classificatory scheme is still useful in the assessment of contemporary emphases in psychology, such as the present prominence of cognitive psychology to the relative neglect of affection and conation.
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