PSYC 308 Midterm: 308-midterm1

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Jack Martin

Document Summary

Possible questions for the first in-class writing assignment. Discuss two inevitable, historiographical challenges that, if not handled well, can lead to errors in historical research and writing. Also give two examples of specific errors associated with each of these challenges based on what you have studied thus far about the history of psychology. Challenges in interpre8ng the past: presentism: the tendency to interpret the past in terms of present standards, conventions, and rules of conduct, understanding, and so forth. However, history must be critical and attempt to balance as many different accounts as possible and to take seriously alternative interpretations that differ from the historian"s own. Wundt"s psychophysical parallelism (under wundt"s method & wundt"s theoretical system section): to understand wundt, recognizing this difference must not be equated to mind-body dualism.