PSY 731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Psychologist, Zeitgeist, Psychology Today
10 Sep 2015
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Big p psychology: formal, institutionalized, discipline of psychology (academic departments, journals, organizations, etc. ) Little p psychology: psychological subject matter (people"s feelings, thoughts, behaviours, etc. ) Confounding of the agent (psychologists) and object of study (humans) in psychology so that. The knowledge produced by the agent (and their characteristics) affect how objects respond. The knowledge produced by psychology applies as much to the agents as to the objects. Horace mann bond (1904-1972), african american psychologist. Blacks performed worse on iq tests when the test was administered by a white tester. Black testers felts more anxiety when responding to the researchers questions. Tester > self-fulfilling prophecy than a black tester. Factors outside of psych0logy affect the definition and practise of psychology, the type of knowledge generated, how this knowledge is received. Psychology and psychologists exists within a web of other factors: social, political, cultural. Black female with a phd was unwanted in new york city in the early 1940s .
