PSYC 4008 Lecture : Week 1 Notes
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In general, on each exam, he will ask about people, important published examples of peoples work, and theoretical details and constructs. Historiography: the theory and study of writing histories, the study of histories, many theorists of history, our book mentions one in particular, robert watson, robert watson founded the specialty division in the apa for history of psychology. He also founded the first journal for publishing articles in the history of psyc. He was a theorist that came up with the notion as to how you can be guided as a writer of history that you can present your material in an easy and less biased method. He discussed how if you are writing about history, you can"t write about everything, so you have to pick what you want to discuss. They are frequently evaluative ( your wrong, right, etc. : historicism: looks to write the history and place you in that time period.
