PSY 731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Experimental Psychology, Monism, Psychophysical Parallelism
10 Sep 2015
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The official policy in psychology, regardless of field, was to exclude women. Could not secure full time academic positions (or only positions limited to teaching colleges) Having men in a department was considered prestigious at the time. Civil rights act of 1964 (in the u. s. ): illegal to discriminate based on sex. (women quarterly is a journal focusing in women"s issues) Women taking more senior roles in departments. More change coming: 2020, 13%o of faculty members in the us were minorities; but. Example of a minority making significant gains in psychology. People start to question if african americans were capable of taking a job- misconception of. Epistemology: the branch philosophy concerned with theories of knowledge. Ex. theories about how we acquire knowledge. A branch of philosophy that deals with theories of the origin of knowledge. Nativism: the notion that (some) knowledge is innate. Experiencing things in the physical world / knowledge from the senses. Rationalism: reason is the source of knowledge.
