PSY 3019

Description

Explores the philosophical and scientific antecedents to modern psychology, the history of psychology as an independent discipline in the 19th century, and the development of psychology in the 20th century.

Objectives

1. Differentiate between the internal, presentist, and historicism concepts of history, identify sources of historical data, and differentiate secondary sources and primary sources in historiography.
2. Summarize and contrast Descartes' position on the mind-body interaction, John Locke's British Empiricist philosophy, Berkeley's philosophies, Hume's rules of association, and Leibniz's philosophical concepts.
3. Integrate the concepts of psychophysical parallelism, contiguity (spatial contiguity and temporal contiguity) repetition, and holism into David Hartley's Physiological Associationism.
4. Analyze the Bell-Magendie law and Muller's doctrine of specific energies of nerves, compare Hering's opponent process theory with the Young-Helmholtz theory, and discuss work of Lashley, Flourens, Fritsch and Hitzig, and Sherrington.
5. Examine Weber's major contributions concerning tactile sensitivity, two-point thresholds, and Weber's Law.
6. Apply the concept of “just noticeable difference” and differentiate between the method of limits, method of constant stimuli, and method of adjustment.
7. Examine Darwin’s original theory of evolution, the principle of serviceable associated habits, and the principle of antithesis.
8. Summarize and explain William James' theories and methodology, Mary Calkins contributions to psychology, and compare William James and G. Stanley Hall’s contributions to psychology.
9. Evaluate Titchener’s contributions to psychology and compare Dewey, Thorndike, Angell, and Carr’s concepts.
10. Debate the controversy over “intelligence” and explain how this is related to nativism.
11. Describe and explain the theoretical underpinnings of Gestalt psychology and compare and contrast behavioral vs. geographic environments, perceptual organization, and psychophysical isomorphism.
12. Describe the origins of behaviorism and Pavlov's Classical Conditioning research and explain how John B. Watson popularized behaviorism.
13. Evaluate Skinner's contribution to psychology, summarize “neobehaviorism,” and explain the attractiveness of logical positivism for experimental psychologists.
14. Describe and explain the historical evaluation and treatment of mental illness and the evolution of clinical psychology in the United States.
15. Analyze and explain Freud's founding of psychoanalysis and the pro's and con's of Freud's tenets in the clinical setting.
16. Summarize and explain the evolution of cognitive and developmental psychology and explain the different applications of psychology to various business and industry environments and special populations.

PreRequisites

PSY 1010: General Psychology or equivalent

Textbook(s)

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