PSYC-301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zeitgeist, Wilhelm Wundt
20 Mar 2019
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Historiography- methods of history: primary sources: produced during time period of interest, secondary sources: later accounts of an earlier time period, example: wundt. Historical approach: try to understand past within the context of its time: remove hindsight bias. Presentist approach: view of history overly-biased by the present. Focus of psychology"s history: internal history: focus on factors within psychology, usually written by psych experts, ceremonial history", history of ideas, external history: focus on factors outside the psych (zeitgeist) politics, economics, religion (assumptions people make, e. g. Impact of 1057 sputnik on psych testing in us: usually written by historians, critical history".
