PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Psychological Association, Recapitulation Theory, Mary Whiton Calkins
28 Mar 2017
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Stage one: moral and mental philosophy: psychology included topics such as ethics, divinity, and philosophy. To learn psychology was to learn the accepted theology of the day: samuel johnson, influenced by locke"s an essay concerning. Human understanding, wrote a book, which contained some topics, which were psychological in nature child psychology, the nature of consciousness, the nature of knowledge, introspection, and perception. Stage two: intellectual philosophy: psychology became a separate discipline, became primarily influenced by the scottish common sense views, thomas reid and the scottish school of common sense. Common sense, or natural judgment of human beings. Real existence of both subject and object is directly known. Stage three: the u. s. renaissance: psychology becomes an empirical science, late 1880"s. The first issue of the american journal of psychology. William james"s principles of psychology (1890: psychology began emphasizing individual differences, adaptation to the environment, and practicality.
