PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Apa Style, Psych
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John watson was a master of rhetoric who changed the us psychology discipline through his rhetorical choices. James understood foundation of psychological knowledge metaphorically (stream of consciousness) and employed darwinian metaphors (ex function ) Mental testers adopted rhetoric of medicine (ex mental disease) and engineering (ex mental stress) Early psychologists also believed the scientific language they employed in their conference presentations and articles was purely objective. However psychological language doesn"t reflect psychological phenomena unambiguously; rather, it mediates them subjectively. Language is the basis for scientific argument and any argument is a rhetorical act. Though there was a prehistory of rhetorical codes for construction of research reports in. Us psych its rhetoric (apa style) was not standardized until emergence of publication. Apa style refers to explicit directions for composing journal reports, includes both format and style. Apa have accomodated contemporary concerns such as changing previously acceptable.
