Cambridge Conference on Psychology of Thinking, 1955

Material related to the 1955 Cambridge Conference on Psychology of Thinking.

File 1 contains:

List of conference participants

Letter from F. C. Bartlett to Hearnshaw, 18th January 1955

Draft papers:

Bruner, Jerome S., Going Beyond the Information Given

Hick, W. S., Some Thoughts on Thinking

Hilgard, Earnest R., Thinking and Learning Theory

Mackay, D. M., Some Perceptual Problems in Terms of Information-Flow

Miller, George A., Remembering, Re-coding, and Thinking

Brown, Roger W., Linguistic Meaning

Werner, Heinz & Bernard Kaplan,The Developmental Approach to the Study of Thought and Language

File 2 contains the following draft papers:

Werner, Heinz & Bernard Kaplan, Symbolic Mediation and organization of Thought: An Experimental Approach

Rokeach, Milton, On the Unity of Thought and Belief

Zangwill, O., On the Neurology of Thinking

Vernon, M. D., Perception & Thinking

Mackworth, N. H. & J. F. Mackworth., Searching for Information by Receptor Anticipation

Mackworth, N. H. & J. F. Mackworth, The Overlapping of Signals for Decisions

Oldfield, R. C., Some Principles of Convergence in Thinking

1955

2 Files Handle with care

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

9 black and white photographs of Hearnshaw and other Psychologists, at various functions and conferences, have been removed to the British Psychological Society Visual Archive file.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.