[PSY4130] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (29 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

History and systems of psychology chapter 1 | lecture 1 | introduction. Presentism - try to understand the past and we are judging it through our present lens. Understanding the past in terms of contemporary knowledge standards. In this view, the latest evidence is the best. Historicism - try to understand the event in terms of the knowledge that we have. The story of the past without attempting to show a relationship with the present. Provides a better framework for understanding psychology"s history than presentism. Focusing on a broader point of view, economic factors, looking outside the. Evolution, research within the discipline (ignoring outside in uences) The great-person approach concentrates on the most prominent contributors to the topic or. We will use a combination of these three approaches while studying the history of psychology. Personalistic-naturalistic theory is the view that progress and change in scienti c history are attributable to the ideas of unique individuals.