ABSTRACT
One of the most puzzling experiences one has in teaching courses on the history of psychology is coming to realize that most undergraduate students know little or nothing about Roger W.Sperry’s contributions to psychology and many of them do not even recognize the name. What makes this innocence of understanding hard to understand is that these same students usually have some acquaintance with the theories of such giants in the history of clinical psychology as Sigmund Freud (chap. 4, Pioneers I) and Carl Rogers (chap. 15, Pioneers III), such important experimental psychologists as Gustav Fechner (chap. 1, Pioneers II) and Hermann Ebbinghaus (chap. 4, Pioneers III), and such system builders as John B.Watson (chap. 12, Pioneers I) and Max Wertheimer (chap. 13, Pioneers I). One purpose of this chapter is to give readers more knowledge about Sperry, who certainly qualifies as a pioneer in the history of psychology.
