PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gordon Allport, Rollo May, Behaviorism
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Midterm: 50% textbook, 50% lecture, concept maps are important to study, if you do badly on the midterm but do significantly better on the final, Course instructor: gerald cupchik: email: cupchik@utsc. utoronto. ca, office: sw564 (416 287-7467, office hours: mondays and thursdays, 11 am 12 pm. Teaching assistants: kathleen walsh: k. walsh@mail. utoronto. ca, swathi. swaminathan@mail. utoronto. ca. Textbook: fourth edition of benjafield"s a history of psychology. From pascal"s pens es (18th century) : man is only a reed, the feeblest reed in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the entire universe to arm itself in order to annihilate him: a vapor, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. Thrownness according to which we are thrown into a particular life at a particular time in history. Why do we study the history of psychology: 1. Know what has been done to avoid repetition and take advantage of research possibilities that have lain dormant.
