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Psychology is an exciting field and the history of psychology offers the opportunity to make sense of how it has grown and developed. The history of psychology also provides perspective. Rather than a dry collection of names and dates, the history of psychology tells us about the important intersection of time and place that defines who we are.
mental psychology (Volume 4), personality and social psy-chology (Volume 5), developmental psychology (Volume 6), and educational psychology (Volume 7). Volumes 8 through 12 address the application of psychological knowledge in five broad areas of professional practice: clinical psychology (Volume 8), health psychology (Volume 9), assessment psy-
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Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, and has only recently begun seriously grappling with the issue of cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that the roots of cross-cultural variation often lie in the past. Therefore, to understand not just the way, but also why psychology varies, we also need to g...
To explain contemporary behavior and psychology, an increasing number of researchers have found themselves turning to cultural evolutionary theories and historical data. Here, we describe some illustrative examples that link contemporary psychological variation—including cooperation, trust, personality and gender differences—to historical processes...
There are at least two ways in which an engagement with history can be useful for psychologists. In the previous section, we focused on how contemporary cross-cultural psychological patterns might be driven by past cultural or ecological dynamics. In this section, we turn to a discussion of how traces of past cognition can be extracted from histori...
It is helpful to think of historical data in terms of a spectrum from unstructured to structured. Fully unstructured data consists of uninterpreted artifacts or physical texts from the past, the raw data upon which scholarly interpretation is built. As the identity and function of artifacts are inferred, or texts are deciphered, standardized and i...
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Jan 13, 2022 · "Provides a narrative history of psychology. A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity begins tracking psychology from the development of folk psychology as the key adaptation of humans at the dawn of history. It then traces the Classical, medieval, and early modern periods to present day psychology. The text covers scientific ...
Why Study the History of Psychology? 3 A Brief History of the History of Psychology 4 Framing the History of Psychology: Complementary Approaches 6 Diversity and the History of Psychology 11 BOX: PSYCHOLOGIST COUPLES AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN 16 More on This Book s Approach to the History of Psychology: A Preview 18 Discussion Questions 21 2
the history of psychology: Psychological topics. Scholars, philosophers, poets, etc. have studied certain psycholog-ical topics for millennia. For instance, Aristotle ...
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Foundations of Psychology This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology’s history.
