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  1. Sep 2022
    1. The highlights without annotations are just to show all the significant people, events, organizations, etc. Buchner discussed that are especially significant to the history and field of psychology.

    2. Overall, this was a very cool read because Buchner discussed so many significant contributing factors - periodicals, people, written works, establishments, etc. that are still relevant in the field of psychology today, over a century later. This article provides an excellent overview of many significant events and developments throughout the history of psychology, all still relevant today.

    3. not less than eight excellent text-books for the science [p. 680] were prepared by our leading experts.

      Only around eight! Again, psychology's growth is amazing.

    4. Since 1896, no less than seven important American works have been translated into either French or German; and foreign publishers continue to seek for further privileges from our authors.

      What is our relationship like today with Germany and France concerning the field of psychology? Do we continue to be greatly influenced by them? Vice-versa? Do new developments continue to be interconnected or derived from one another?

    5. borrowing heavily from British and German sources

      What is our relationship like today with Germany and France concerning the field of psychology? Do we continue to be greatly influenced by them? Vice-versa? Do new developments continue to be interconnected or derived from one another?

    6. Still another line of psychological development was characteristic of French science.

      What is our relationship like today with Germany and France concerning the field of psychology? Do we continue to be greatly influenced by them? Vice-versa? Do new developments continue to be interconnected or derived from one another?

    7. The former mould of belief and endeavor was derived from Germany; the latter, from England.

      What is our relationship like today with Germany and France concerning the field of psychology? Do we continue to be greatly influenced by them? Vice-versa? Do new developments continue to be interconnected or derived from one another?

    8. And women's clubs and Chautauquan circles have no less been exploited by the ingenuity of American authorship in psychology.

      Now that I’m seeing the word “exploited” again, I’m thinking maybe it did not hold the same connotation as it does today. I think it may simply mean “influenced” in this context here - it may not have had such a negative connotation as it does today. I’ve seen it twice now and it seems to be used in a different context. I thought it held a negative connotation the first time I read it.

    9. There has also somewhat recently appeared a tendency to admit instruction in psychology in our theological seminaries as a part of the future minister's training; but the adaptation of the science to the practical aspects of the religious life remains a development of the future, which may come soon in consequence of the very recent active explorations in the psychology of religion.

      It's interesting that this did develop! Instruction in psychology is now usually always incorporated into theological education.

    10. Almost the entire departments of child, race, and animal psychology, which now are so splendidly equipped with a knowledge of their respective objects, have been either entirely reconstructed or newly created within these twenty-five years

      It’s interesting to see the reconstruction and new creations that have developed since this was written.

    11. look to the periodicals which have been established especially for receiving the more technical studies conducted in these laboratories, to those which welcome a more popular discussion of psychological facts and problems, to the technical journals of other branches of science which open their pages to the treatment of topics which have mutual bearings with psychology, and to the serial issues and bulletins of universities and laboratories which secure a more immediate publication of their own studies respectively than could occur if this depended solely upon the larger journals. Mention can be made of this Journal (1887), "The Psychological Review" (1894), and its nineteen monographs, the publication of which began in 1895. Yale and Iowa Universities each maintain separate "Studies" for their departments of psychology. Chicago, Columbia, Colorado, and Cornell, have special serial issues devoted to philosophy, psychology, and education, or to psychology and education. "The Open Court" (1887), "The Monist" (1890), and "The Philosophical Review" have been valuable adjuncts to the broadening and deepening of psychology and its influence upon cognate departments of thought by having fostered the modern spirit of the science and brought out many valuable discussions of [p. 679] its topics. The educational press, headed by "The Pedagogical Seminary" and "The Educational Review" (1891), has also performed extensive service for a sound psychology in the schools.

      I use some of these journals in my studies today. It is incredible how these journals have grown, developed, and remain a strong, reliable source today. It seems like Buchner would not be surprised in the slightest to learn of the status and importance of these periodicals in the field today.

    12. In nine years after the establishment of the first laboratory on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, there had been fifteen laboratories equipped either for research or for demonstration. In the next two years ten new laboratories were opened. Now there are experimental facilities found in not less than forty colleges, universities, and pathological institutions in the United States.

      Same here - remarkable how much the numbers have increased.

    13. It has had a membership of one hundred and forty-eight psychologists, eighty-nine of whom have been contributing members. In the course of its history the Association has received two hundred and eighty-three communications.

      It's remarkable how much these numbers have increased.

    14. The American Psychological Association, which has gradually become the largest and the most important single factor incorporating psychology into the temper of American institutions, both scientific and educational.

      It’s cool that this still stands true over a century later.

    15. These items relate to university interest in the science, the founding of laboratories, the developments in organized instruction in undergraduate and especially in graduate courses, the widening influence of these changes upon the practical issues of human life, particularly education, the establishment of journals and the production of a technical literature, consisting of articles, monographs, treatises, and text books, and the promotion of the welfare of the science through the corporate activity of the American Psychological Association.

      it’s awesome to see how this has only grown even more immensely. This truly was only the beginning - I can’t imagine getting to witness such beginnings seeing how much the field and interest has grown today.

    16. No greater intellectual infusion into psychology has saturated the labors and constructions of the last twenty-five years.

      This was written in 1903. What is now considered to be the greatest “infusion?”

    17. Mental pathology was variously exploited in extreme ways.

      I wish he elaborated and provided some examples here for anyone with little or no prior knowledge of the history of psychology.

    18. Both of these developments in psychology were [p. 667] extremely individualistic,

      has this contributed to the United States being an extremely individualistic nation?

    19. declared psychology to be forever an impossible science.

      did this statement significantly alter the field? Psychologist’s attitudes, decisions, beliefs, etc. Were people influenced by this declaration, therefore altering the course of psychology’s history forever? I just wonder how large of an impact this declaration of Kant’s may have had - it's interesting that we'll never fully know.

    20. declared psychology to be forever an impossible science.

      I like this phrase a lot. I find it to be very accurate considering how complex the field is. Of course it’s no longer truly considered as such since we’ve learned and grown so significantly in the field, but its complexity still reigns. Perhaps not impossible but certainly difficult and seemingly impossible to non-experts.