PSY 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: American Psychological Association, Association For Psychological Science, Psychology Today
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After reading and discussing chapter 20, students should: Be aware of the diversity of contemporary psychology. Be familiar with the uneasy relationship between pure scientific and applied psychology. Be acquainted with the controversy concerning the training of clinical psychologists. Be aware of the concern over psychology"s status as a science. Know what postmodernism is and understand its influence on psychology. Founded in 1892 with a handful of charter members. Today there are 54 divisions representing diverse areas of interests and specialties. (see table 20. 1 in the text. ) From psychology"s inception as a science there was tension between those wanting psychology to be a pure science (such as wundt) and those wanting psychological principles to be applied to practical matters (such as hall, cattell, and m nsterberg). The founding of the apa did not decrease this tension. The tension resulted in titchener refusing to participate in any of its activities and he created his.
