PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: B. F. Skinner, Histology, Army Alpha

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Key issues in history: old vs new history, presentism vs historicism, external vs internal hisotry, personalistic vs naturalistis. Personalistic- great man: the view that progress and chance in science history are attributable to the. Naturalistic about the state of science or psychology at that particular time. 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. The principles, methods and philosophical issues of historical research. The materials used to reconstruct lives, events, eras. Data fragments- descriptions written by prticipants, letters, diaries, interviews, official accounts, etc. Information at the university where the persn worked. Difficulties assessing the worth of the data: lost of supressed data. Supressed: freud"s (cid:373)aterials to (cid:271)e ope(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) the (cid:1006)(cid:1005)st century. Altered-> for self-interest, to protect the reputation of people. Reliability of eye witness: distorted in translation. Deli(cid:271)erately: freud"s used of i(cid:272)h (cid:894)i(cid:895) ei(cid:374)fall (cid:894)i(cid:374)trusion)