[...]... consolidation of other theories of perception and social behavior into a unifying and cohesive system See also PERCEPTION (I GENERAL), THEORIES OF; PERCEPTION (II COMPARATIVE APPRAISAL), THEORIES OF REFERENCES Allport, F (19 40) An event-system of collective action Journal of Social Psychology, 11 , 417 -445 Allport, F (19 54) The structuring of events: Outline of a general theory with applications to psychology Psychological. .. THEORY OF PERSONALITY; MOTIVATION, THEORIES OF REFERENCE Allport, G W (19 37) The functional autonomy of motives American Journal of Psychology, 50, 14 1 -15 6 ALLPORT’S THEORY OF ENESTRUENCE = event-structure theory This theory of perception, developed by Floyd Henry Allport (18 90 -19 78), whom many consider to be the father of experimental social psychology, consists of a kinetic geometry (“kinematics”) of. .. SELYE’S THEORY/MODEL OF STRESS REFERENCES Stratton, G (18 97) Vision without inversion of the retinal image Psychological Review, 4, 3 41- 360 Crozier, W (19 40) The theory of the visual threshold II On the kinetics of adaptation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 26, 334-339 Cohen, J (19 46) Color adaptation of the human eye American Journal of Psychology, 59, 84 -11 0 Hess, E (19 56) Space perception... 61, 2 81- 303 Allport, F (19 55) Theories of perception and the concept of structure New York: Wiley Allport, F (19 67) A theory of enestruence (event-structure) American Psychologist, 22, 1- 14 ALLPORT’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY In taking an eclectic and humanistic approach to the study of personality, Gordon Willard Allport (18 97 -19 67) drew on a wide variety of sources, from William McDougall’s theory of. .. DECISION-MAKING THEORIES; DELAY OF GRATIFICATION HYPOTHESIS; HEDONISM, THEORY OF; INCENTIVE THEORY; LEARNING THEO-RIES AND LAWS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, THEORIES OF; SCHIZOPHRENIA, THEORIES OF; SENSITIZATION, PRINCIPLE OF REFERENCES Savitt, R A (19 68) The psychopathology of the addiction process Journal of Hillside Hospital, 17 , 277-286 Tamerin, J S., & Neuman, C P (19 71) Prognostic factors in the evaluation of addicted... H (19 49) Brain stem reticular formation and activation of the EEG EEG & Clinical Neurophysiology, 1, 455-473 Duffy, E (19 51) The concept of energy mobilization Psychological Review, 58, 30-40 Lindsley, D B (19 51) Emotion In S S Stevens (Ed.), Handbook of experimental psychology, pp 473- 516 New York: Wiley McClelland, D C (19 51) Personality New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston Duffy, E (19 57) The psychological. .. Anderson, J R (19 83) A spreading activation theory of memory Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior, 22, 2 61- 295 Anderson, J R (19 90) The adaptive character of thought Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Anderson, J R (19 92) Automaticity and the ACT-super(*) theory American Journal of Psychology, 10 5, 16 518 0 Anderson, J R (19 96) ACT: A simple theory of complex cognition American Psychologist, 51, 355-365 ADAPTIVE... E (19 14) The all-or-none principle in nerves Journal of Physiology, 47, 450-474 Osgood, C (19 53) Method and theory in experimental psychology New York: Oxford University Press Roeckelein J E (19 96) Citation of laws and theories in textbooks across 11 2 years of psychology Psychological Reports, 79, 979-998 ALLPORT’S CONFORMITY HYPOTHESIS The American social psychologist Floyd Henry Allport (18 90 -19 78)... best of my knowledge and awareness, there is no other dictionary of psychology, to date (with the exception of my previous work, Roeckelein, 19 98), that is dedicated solely to the compilation of psychological theories [cf., Bothamley’s (19 93) multidisciplinary dictionary] Furthermore, due to the proliferation of the “best guesses” and theories in the last half-century that have appeared in the psychological. .. Abney, W (18 97) The sensitiveness of the retina to light and colour Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 19 0A, 15 5 -19 3 ABNEY’S EFFECT See ABNEY’S LAW ABNORMALITY, THEORIES OF See PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, THEORIES OF ABNEY’S LAW The English chemist and physiologist William de Wiveleslie Abney (18 44 -19 20) developed this principle concerning the additivity of heterochromatic luminances (brightness) .