PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emic And Etic, Cultural Diversity, Implicit Memory
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Lesser status than philosophy (main subject taught in arts departments) and cognitive psychology/biological psychology (how we think, and how our brains physiology directs our thinking) Titchener structuralism analyze sensations, images and feelings into basic elements (like chemistry) so people studying social psychology trained to recognize the simplest definable components or thoughts and feelings they were aware of and list them. Canada lost its social psychologists to the states. Canadian psychology evolved in an applied direction (post-depression trough): mental health, community psychology, and the study of children and the family were its strengths. Social psychology goes to war and returns (1939-1955) During post war time phase, the goals were to identify and study concepts that would help future war efforts. Attitude change (for societies and for individuals) By 1950 psychology had become its own discipline in most canadian universities and the first handbook of social psychology had been written. Phenomenological approach emerged (observe and study phenomena in society to build theories)
