PSYC 3125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Franz Mesmer, Dugald Stewart, Deism
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Chapter 4 from periphery to center: creating an. Developments in religion, education and everyday life created a cultural opening that facilitated receptivity to the new science + profession. In 19th century american colleges, dominant approach to explaining human thought/behavior was through mental and moral philosophy grounded in scottish common sense and realism. Local culture develops own psychology vs importing aspects of psychologies developed elsewhere and combining them with local concepts. Conflict between emergent everyday psychology and graduate-trained psychologists: thought they were better, older had to fight for scientific credibility. Phrenology + mesmerism imported from europe + underwent indigenization in the us. Key issue that remains today: what constitutes intellectual + practical center of the discipline and what constitutes the periphery. Americans learned in germany, brought it back and combined it with practical ethos of. Argument over whether new psychology was revolution or evolution, some think they owed the older generation of mental philosophy.
