PSYC 4008 Chapter : Chapter 1 Historiography
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Historiography: histories are selective, historians want to avoid introducing any kind of bias of their own into writing history, edwin boring: the grand ole guy of american historians of psychology. He did a lot of theorizing of how you write history of psychology: robert watson: historian who is known for founding the specialty in the history of psychology within the apa. Start with some presumable truth and come to an individual truth. For much of our history we look at what each person thought about the soul caused by physical process. a transcendent of physical process. It is spiritual. means sensory experience true independent of experience. This approach is when you take something smaller and bring it into a larger whole. Looks at many examples: indeterminism does not focus on causes, believes things cause in a more free form way. If we didn"t have it we wouldn"t be here: dualism the belief that both mind and body are real.
