There are many books which had tremendous influence on the
discipline of Psychology and thus have attained the status of classic or were best
sellers. Occasionally UGC asks questions in which a person is required to match
the authors and the books. While studying we come across many books and authors,
we need to make a list of such books and their authors. But a vast majority
seldom does that. I, therefore, have tried to compile a list which is not
exhaustive but I hope will help many students. Don’t try to memories the whole
list, just go through it few times that would help in recognising/matching them
in the exam because most of the names of the books are associated with the theories of the respective authors.
There is one more technique that you
may try. Almost all the authors are associated with some theories so when you are
preparing notes then after the theories, write down the names of the books
associated with the author. Or if you don’t prepare notes and prefer to read
from textbooks then write down after the chapters.
Gordon
Allport
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation (1937)
Traits Revisited (1966)
Alan
Baddeley
Working Memory (1986)
Frederick
Bartlett
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
(1932)
John Bowlby
Attachment and Loss, Volume 1:
Attachment (1969)
Attachment and Loss, Volume 2:
Separation, Basic Books (1973)
Attachment and Loss, Volume 3: Loss, Sadness and Depression (1980)
Raymond
Cattell
Personality and Learning Theory
(1979)
Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth
and Action (1987)
Noam Chomsky
Syntactic Structures (1957)
Studies of Semantics in Generative
Grammar (1972)
Rules and Representations (1980)
Erik Erikson
Childhood and Society (1950)
Insight and Responsibility (1964)
Identity, Youth and Crisis (1968)
Gandhi’s Truth (1969)
Dimensions of a New Identity (1974)
Life History and the Historical Moment (1975)
The Life Cycle Completed: A Review (1982)
Sigmund
Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
(1904)
Three Essays on the Theory of
Sexuality (1905)
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances
between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
The Ego and the Id (1923)
The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Civilization and Its Discontents
(1930)
Clark Hull
Principles of Behavior (1943)
Essentials of Behavior (1951)
A Behavior System (1952)
Carl Jung
Psychological Types (1923)
Contributions to Analytic Psychology (1928)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Lawrence
Kohlberg
The Philosophy of Moral Development
(1981)
The Meaning and Measurement of Moral
Development (1981)
Kurt Lewin
A Dynamic Theory of Personality
(1935)
Principals of Topological Psychology (1936)
The Conceptual Representation and the Measurement of Psychological
Forces (1938)
Konrad
Lorenz
On Aggression (1963)
The Foundations of Ethology (1981)
Abraham
Maslow
Motivation and Personality (1954)
Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)
David
McClelland
The Achieving Society (1961)
Stanley
Milgram
Obedience to Authority (1974)
Jean Piaget
Judgment and Reasoning in the Child
(1928)
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (1951)
The Child’s Conception of Number (1952)
Origins of Intelligence in the Child (1953)
Construction of Reality in the Child (1954)
Biology and Knowledge (1971)
Equilibration of Cognitive Structures (1985)
Carl Rogers
Counselling and Psychotherapy (1942)
Client-Centred Therapy (1951)
On Becoming a Person (1961)
A Way of Being (1980)
Herbert
Simon
Human problem-solving (1972) (with
A. Newell)
B. F. Skinner
Science and Human Behavior (1953)
Verbal Behavior (1957)
Schedules of Reinforcement (1957)
(with C. B. Ferster)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971)
About Behaviorism (1974)
Edward
Thorndike
Animal Intelligence (1911)
The Psychology of Wants, Interests
and Attitudes (1935)
John Watson
Animal Education: An Experimental
Study on the Psychical Development of the White Rat (1903)
Behavior: An Introduction to
Comparative Psychology (1914)
Behaviorism (1914)
Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist (1919)
Wilhelm
Wundt
Principles of Physiological
Psychology (1873–74)
Outlines of Psychology (1907)
