PSYC 308 Final: 308-final
7 Aug 2016
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Describe and contrast the criticisms of laboratory-based experimental psychology and the then mainstream behaviorist psychology of the 1940s to the 1960s by (a) critical social psychologists like kenneth gergen, (b) humanists like carl rogers, and (c) gestaltists like. Wolfgang k hler: - gergen"s thought that social psychology cannot be treated as the disciplines that usually remain constant in experiments such as physics. In his article, gergen argued that social psychology was not an experimental science, but was better understood in the systematic study of contemporary history because human behavior often changes over time. He stated that the changes of human behavior can be explained in a few ways. When being educated about social psychological theories, humans may exhibit a tendency to react against social psychological theories such as how people change behavior after learning bystander effect. Thus, this may disproves the theories which are once accepted.
