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SMTolson (talk) 03:07, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Mentalism Article Revamp

Article Current Content Analysis

a. Does the existing Wikipedia article address these themes? i. No. b. Does the existing Wikipedia article address these themes in an unbiased fashion? i. No. c. Does the existing Wikipedia article address them in what seems to be a complete fashion? i. Absolutely not. d. Does the existing Wikipedia article include links, where appropriate, to other articles? i. No. e. Does the existing Wikipedia article include external links, where appropriate, to urls outside of Wikipedia? i. Barely.

Article is currently rather bare bones, to put it mildly. It needs a complete rework.

Article Structure Analysis

a. Does the existing Wikipedia article have adequate headings and subheadings? b. Does the existing Wikipedia article have adequate footnotes? c. Does the existing Wikipedia article have adequate references? d. Does the existing Wikipedia article have adequate appendices (if needed)?

Technically, the answer is yes for all except perhaps “a”, but the article is so small that the technical answer is rather meaningless. Article will need more content in all these areas by the time it’s done.

Outline for Improvement

Prototype outline, based on looking at successful articles about similar topics (major science concepts and the like) and analyzing how they organized their content. Will most likely erase all of the current article; there’s not much there anyway.

Mentalism (Overview) Contents 1.) Antecedents and Influences 2.) Present Day 3.) Relationship Between Mentalism and Behaviorism 4.) Other Criticism 5.) List of Psychological Subfields

Potential Sources:

Where did the word "cognitive" come from anyway? Green, Christopher D. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, Vol 37(1), Feb 1996, 31-39. doi: 10.1037/0708-5591.37.1.31

Shedding light on mentalism . Dreger, Ralph Mason American Psychologist, Vol 51(1), Jan 1996, 54-55. doi: 10.1037/h0092961

The cognitive revolution and mind/brain issues. Pribram, Karl H. American Psychologist, Vol 41(5), May 1986, 507-520. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.41.5.507

Neomentalism. Paivio, Allan Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie, Vol 29(4), Dec 1975, 263-291. doi: 10.1037/h0082031

Seeing minds in behavior: Descriptive mentalism . Charles, Eric P. Review of General Psychology, Vol 15(3), Sep 2011, 267-276. doi: 10.1037/a0024870

Dispelling the "mystery" of computational cognitive science. Green, Christopher D. History of Psychology, Vol 3(1), Feb 2000, 62-66. doi: 10.1037/1093-4510.3.1.62

On Mentalism, Methodological Behaviorism, and Radical Behaviorism Jay Moore Behaviorism, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1981), pp. 55-77