PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jean Piaget, Psyccritiques, Psychological Science
17 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 Lecture 7 Notes
Introduction
Contemporary Psychology
• You will see how researchers evaluate conflicting opinions and ideas.
• And you will learn how all of us, whether scientists or simply curious people, can think
smarter when experiencing and explaining the events of our lives.
• How has our understanding of biology and experience, culture and gender, and human
flourishing shaped contemporary psychology?
• The young science of psychology developed from the more established fields of
philosophy and biology.
• Wundt was both a philosopher and a physiologist. James was an American philosopher.
• Freud was an Austrian physician. Ivan Pavlov, who pioneered the study of learning, was
a Russian physiologist.
• Jea Piaget, the last etury’s ost ifluetial oserer of hildre, as a “iss
biologist.
• These Magellas of the id, as Morto Hut 1993 has alled the, illustrate
psychology’s origis i ay disiplies ad ay outries.
• Like those pioeers, today’s psyhologists are itizes of ay lads.
• The International Union of Psychological Science has 182 member nations, from Albania
to Zimbabwe.
• In China, the first university psychology department began in 1978
• By 2008 there were nearly 200 (Han, 2008; Tversky, 2008).
• Moreover, thanks to international publications, joint meetings, and the Internet,
collaboration and communication now cross borders.
• Psychology is growing and it is globalizing.
• The story of psychology—the subject—continues to develop in many places
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