PSYC 4008 Chapter : 4008 1
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Historians want to avoid bias: edwin boring, robert watson, historian who is known for founding the specialty in apa for the history of psychology, founded the first journal for the publication of articles of history of psychology. Internal: sticks as closely as you can. Focuses on the dynamics within the aspect you are trying to describe: external, points out things like historical events taking place in psychology take place in other. Personalistic vs. naturalistic: boring wrote the history of experimental psychology. Robert watson: developed a list of terms, to be used as modifiers or people or places, or actions. What methodology/approach was used. (guiding principles: arranged the terms so the terms on the left go together, and terms on the right go together. Determinist believes there is a cause behind everything. Indeterminism: believes things occur in a free form way. Inductivism- deductivism: how we get to a truth.
