PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Man Theory, Thomas Kuhn, Zeitgeist
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History and systems week 1 - jan 10. Psychology is a mix of two topics: psyche ( philosophy, early thinkers, greece, ancient rome, physiology, adding to science, understanding the way the body works. Why study this: basis for studies conducted today, diversity within the field, evolution of the field, understanding the origins. The past the principles. methods and philosophical issues of historical research: historiography, historians, data cannot be reconstructed or replicated, events may not have been recorded accurately, analyzing it from different points of view, another point. Which is more important? the person who developed it the times of the idea. The personalistic theory: progress and change are a result of an individual contribution. Great man theory the history of the world is but the biography of the great men. Naturalistic theory: progress and change in inevitable result of general zeitgeist. Intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of times.