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Nov 07, 2024
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PSY 461 - History and Systems of Psychology (Put on reserve 9/16/19) Description: Historical development and persistent theoretical problems of contemporary psychology. (Put on reserve 9/16/19, will go inactive 8/24/22)
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: PSY 101.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe major problematic themes of systems of psychology and describe where a given system stands on these dimensions: conscious mentalism-unconscious mentalism, behaviorism-mentalism, determinism-indeterminism, empiricism-rationalism, functionalism-structuralism, mechanism-vitalism, molecularism-molarism, monism-dualism, naturalism-supernaturalism, nomotheticism-idiographicism, and staticism-dynamicism
- Describe common problems in historiography
- Compare at least four views of how science makes progress
- Describe the major figures and contributions to the history of modem psychology made by: Early Greek philosophy, cosmology and idealism, Post-Aristotelian worldly philosophy, The Renaissance and the beginnings of modem science and natural philosophy, Empiricists, sensationalists and positivists
- Describe the major figures and contributions to the history of modem psychology made by: Rationalists, Romantics and existentialists, Early Experimental psychologists, Voluntarists, structuralists, other early psychologists, and the Darwinian influence and the testing movement
- Describe the major figures and contributors to the history of modem psychology made by 20th century developments in Functionalism, Behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, and Gestalt Psychology
- Describe the major figures and contributions to the history of modem psychology made by: Pioneers in early diagnosis, explanation, and treatment of mental illness Freud, psychoanalysis and its early alternatives, Humanistic (third force) psychology, Cognitive psychologists, Psycho biologists, and Contemporary professional psychologists
- Use scholarly resources in the library and internet to write a coherent brief history of a selected event in the history of psychology in proper APA style
Learner Outcomes Approval Date: 2/18/2010
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