PSY4130- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Danielle Impey

Document Summary

Great-person approach= the approach to history that concentrates on the most prominent contributors to the topic or field under consideration. Historical development approach=the approach to history that concentrates on an element of a field or discipline and describes how the understanding or approach to studying that element has changed over time. An example is how mental illness has been defined and studied throughout history. The approach taken in this book is to combined zeitgeist, great-person approach and. The data of history: reconstructing psychology"s past: old versus new history : New= historicism, external, naturalistic: presentism (try to understand the past and we are judging it through our present lenses) understand the past in terms of contemporary knowledge and standards. In this view, the latest is the best. (without the present, the concept of history would be meaningless) vs. Historicism (try to understand the event in terms of the knowledge that we have.