PSYC 312 Lecture Notes - Thomas Kuhn, Paradigm Shift, Vitalism
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Rationale common requirement historical focus unique area of specialization reflect/utilize in psychology career avoid mistakes, improve existing research healthy skepticism anticipate future directions. History = interpretive study of events of the past. Historiography= the principles, methods, and philosophical issues of historical research . Lost, altered, suppressed, ignored, distorted, self-serving adaptation, bias. Thus, we use multiple sources and accept that this is all we have Approaches to scientific history: personalistic theory, naturalistic theory, historical development. Understanding history = understanding contextual forces the zeitgeist: the intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times. (economic, war, prejudicepresent infuences) Schools of thought ; the evolution of modern psychology. School of thought = a group of psychologists who become associated ideologically, and/or geographically, with the leader of a movement. Thomas kuhn (1970) the structure of scientific revolutions paradigm shift . Paradigm = an accepted way of thinking within a scientific discipline that provides essential questions and answers.
