PSYC 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reductionism, Physiognomy, Experimental Psychology
24 Jan 2017
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No discipline known as psychology existed before the mid 19th century. Discourse of human nature (mind and the soul) have always existed but with a few exceptions. Francis bacon: advocated a general science in terms of the nature and state of the man in terms of the scientific revolution. However, there existed few psychological experiments before 1850. The term was also rare in britain in the 1800s. Note: the absence of psychology is important at this point in time due to the fact that it was previously mentioned that it emerged smoothly from earlier reflexive discourse from the ancient greeks. They could have been doing experiments with rats and mazes but the issue was that they were not asking research questions in the first place. It was almost like they were theorizing and this is where history and itself began to link ties. They arose in the context of no issues no longer figuring.
