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Chapter 1: Understanding Psychology’s History

Chapter 1: Understanding Psychology’s History. What do we study?. Focusing on knowledge. Understanding historical contexts. Examining the roots. Remembering great individuals. Recurrent themes in psychology:. The mind-body problem. The nature-nurture debates.

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Chapter 1: Understanding Psychology’s History

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  1. Chapter 1: Understanding Psychology’s History
  2. What do we study? Focusing on knowledge Understanding historical contexts Examining the roots Remembering great individuals
  3. Recurrent themes in psychology: The mind-body problem The nature-nurture debates The theorist-practitioner debates
  4. Four types of knowledge in psychology Scientific knowledge. Knowledge accumulated through research, systematic empirical observation, and evaluation of a wide range of psychological phenomena. Facts are obtained with the help of scientific research methodologies and rigorous verification by multiple sources.
  5. Four types of knowledge in psychology Popular beliefs. Everyday assumptions about psychological phenomena; such assumptions are often expressed in the form of beliefs, evaluations, or prescriptions.
  6. Four types of knowledge in psychology Value-based knowledge. A consistent set of beliefs about the world, the nature of good and evil, right and wrong, and the purpose of human life  all based on a certain organizing principal or central idea.
  7. Four types of knowledge in psychology Legal knowledge. Knowledge encapsulated in the law and detailed in rules and principles related to psychological functioning of individuals. These rules are commonly established by legal authorities.
  8. How ideology affected science: two examples Ideology Scientific and Professional Community Trappidomania, or Pathological Craving for Freedom Schizophrenia, Slowly Progressing (Sluggish) Type, Delusion of Reformation
  9. How some scientific ideas are dismantled
  10. How some scientific ideas are dismantled
  11. How some scientific ideas are dismantled
  12. Factors Contributing to the Development of Psychology as Science
  13. Societal Impact on Psychological Knowledge Resources Psychological KnowledgeRetained in History Theoretical and Experimental Research Social Climate Academic Tradition
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