PSYC85H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: New Essays On Human Understanding, Tabula Rasa, Stoicism
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Study how historians are studying their topic over time. Focus on individuals in history, compared to focusing on broader social conditions. Assume that we are becoming more and more specialised in how we can amass information. Unlike we"ll never know it all, we will eventually know it all. Cyclical: denies that progress is implied by change. Idea is that something can be true now, but things can change in the future and then they are false. Over time the knowledge about a topic is accurate so far as we know, but in the future things could change: the new history of psychology. Scientists are not always objective-not impervious to being biased people. Society plays a role in shaping science. Science, the act of doing it, doesn"t always tell us better things. Need to fit with what the government cares about at that time- social institutions of power: how change happens is psychology.
