History of Psychology

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Objectives
This section will enable you to identify key events and individuals in the history of psychology




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Reading

Throughout this course we will be referring you to readings from the e-textbook "Introduction to Psychology, First Edition" by Charles Stangor, published in 2006 by Flat World Knowledge. You can purchase this book in print on online format from Flat World Publishers.

Read the section 1.2 of the Stangor e-textbook.




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Activity
Click on the timeline in the “History of Psychology” link and try to find all the following:
  1. The first psychology laboratory - Hint: Click on “Key Events” and then look for that event on the timeline
    • When?
    • By whom?
  2. Behaviourism - Hint: Click on “Approaches and Perspectives”
    • When?
    • Who?
  3. The nature of prejudice (a book) - Hint: Click on “Publications”
    • When?
    • By whom?




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Reading

Want to read more about a topic in the history of psychology, or read some writings by notable psychologists? View the classic historical publications in psychology from York University. For example:
  1. How many sources are listed here for the topic of intelligence testing?
  2. How many publications available here were written by Sigmund Freud?




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Activity
Compare and contrast various approaches to psychology. Complete these tasks in your journal:
  1. What are the 6 approaches to the study of psychology that Stangor has chosen to describe? Write down their names and a brief definition for each;
  2. Judging by the kinds of topics he covers and the explanations he offers, which of the 6 approaches do you think the MIT professor probably follows? What makes you think that?
  3. Choose another of the 6 approaches, not the one you believe the MIT professor follows. How might that approach explain visual illusions? What aspects of illusions would that approach emphasize, how would they explain illusions, etc.?
  4. Of the 6 approaches, which seems to you, here at the start of your study, to be the most attractive approach? Why? Post a brief argument online to convince your classmates that this is the best approach to psychology.