PSYC 3125- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 94 pages long!)
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Gain deeper understanding of how things came to be today. Also the principles, theory, methods and history of historical writing. History (cid:449)as (cid:449)ritte(cid:374) as progressi(cid:448)e, are (cid:862)superior(cid:863) (cid:374)o(cid:449) Often also had point of view called presentism: select past based on what is important now. Historicism, counter to presentism: in order to understand the past, need to understand it for what it is. 1960s wanted to move away from hagiographic/presentism histories and have more inclusive ones. Did(cid:374)"t rely o(cid:374) archi(cid:448)al i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:449)hich (cid:449)e (cid:449)a(cid:374)t (cid:374)o(cid:449) Critical historians say history had things that supported status quo. Psychologists often chose research questions/data in line with the politics of the society. Reflexivity: psychologists produce knowledge that has potential to change how humans think about themselves. Social constructionism: the general view that knowledge is produced by/is a reflection of social processes, rather than the discovery of unchanging facts, in psychology, that social context influences the content + form of psychological knowledge.
