PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thomas Kuhn, Histology, Zeitgeist

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Chapter 1: psychology and history: histography: study of history, two approaches to history: personal history vs zeitgeist. Role creative individual has in moving history along history is stories as told by those famous/outstanding people that gave contributed. Zetgeist: cultural context each person works in relation to spirit of times. Cycle vs progressive: frank manuel: progressive vs cyclical world. Ixion: rotate forever on a wheel vs jacob: climbs ladder to heaver history is what: psychology can be both of these, changing depending the era. Paradigm: set of fundamental beliefs that guide workers in scientific discipline. Feminism and women psychology: one of contributions was to identify distortions and biases in psychology, demonstrated women"s contributions hadn"t been acknowledged, feminist psychologists works in 2 diff traditions: One tradition emphasized similarities b/w genders and discounted importance of difference b/w them. Science-gender system: conception of both gender and science mutually determine one another.