History of Psych Chapter 1
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Philosophers studied human nature by...
speculating, intuiting, and generalizing based on their own experience.
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Modern psychology began...
when researchers came to rely on carefully controlled observation and experimentation to study the human mind.
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Kurt Danziger
Refers to the early philosophical approaches to questions of human nature as the “prehistory” of modern psychology.
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How much of the general public is skeptical of psychology being a science?
70%
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The data of history...
- cannot be restructed or replicated.
- can be restructed or replicated.
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The data of science...
- cannot be restructed or replicated.
- can be restructed or replicated.
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Data Fragments
Pieces of data historians use to try to recreate the events and experiences of the past.
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Historical data can be distorted by...
- being lost by destruction, stealing, etc.
- being hidden or altered.
- faulty translation of language.
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Zeitgeist
The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times.
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Contextual Forces
- Prejudice and discrimination towards women, Jews, and african americans prevented many of the minority groups from studying.
- World Wars I and II accelerated the growth of applied psychology.
- By 1900, there were three times as many psychologists with doctoral degrees as there were labs to employ them.
- Psychology, as the newest science, received the smallest amount of financial support.
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Personalistic Theory
- The view that progress and change in scientific history are attributable to the ideas of unique individuals.
- This theory is insufficient to explain the development of a science or a society.
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Naturalistic Theory
- The view that progress and change in scientific history are attributable to the Zeitgeist, which makes a culture receptive to some ideas but not to others.
- Described by many different people creating simultaneous discoveries across different times.
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School of Thought
- A group of psychologists who become associated ideologically, and sometimes geographically, with the leader of a movement.
- Typically, the members share a theoretical or systematic orientation and investigate similar problems.
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Paradigm
(A model or pattern) is an accepted way of thinking within a scientific discipline that provides essential questions and answers.
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"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
An influential book by Thomas Kuhn advanced the notion of paradigms in scientific evolution.
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Common Paradigm
- The more advanced stage in the development of a science is reached when the majority of the scientists agree on theoretical and methodological issues.
- When a paradigm defines an entire field of study.
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According to modern psychologists, is psychology paradigmatic?
No.
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