1 20 2016 HISTORY SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY PSY 4 0 1 TO PI C 1 O VE R VI E W C R I TI C AL I S S UE S I N H I S TO R I C AL S TUD I E S TODAY Class Expectations Lecture 1 Critical Issues in Historical Studies 1 1 20 2016 COURSE INFORMATION Canvas Syllabus Assignments Readings Quizzes Grades HOW WILL YOU EARN YOUR GRADE Syllabus Assignment Grading Due Date Points 1 2 min papers Thought Provoking Readings Group Discussions 10 pts X 10 ongoing 100 2 Exams Midterm Final 120 pts X 2 3 9 5 10 240 2 22 50 4 29 125 3 P OPULAR PRESS S TUDENT EDITORIAL SUBMIT VIA CANVAS 4 Individual Research Paper submit via Canvas Total Points Possible 515 100 5 2 1 20 2016 BEST WAY TO CONTACT ME EMAIL Sara tompkins colostate edu Office Hours Clark Building C011 M 12 30 1 30 7 EXPECTATIONS Learner Centered class Active participation I will present some of the class in formal lecture style Read prior to coming to class actively learn with the lectures Discussion groups to engage in critical thinking and apply what you are reading WHY TAKE THIS CLASS A PSYCHOLOGICAL SOPHISTICATION THAT CONTAINS NO COMPONENT OF HISTORICAL ORIENTATION SEEMS TO ME TO BE NO SOPHISTICATION AT ALL E G BORING 1950 3 1 20 2016 CAPSTONE Crowing achievement culmination Chance for discussion yes you will need to talk to me and each other Integration research paper yikes writing Synthesis the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity Don t be critical think critically CRITICAL ISSUES IN HISTORICAL STUDIES Why Study History Historiography WHY STUDY HISTORY THI NK OF ONE PAST EVENT THAT HAS SHAPED YOUR VI EW OF THE FUTURE THI NK OF ONE PRESENT EVENT THAT Y OU THI NK WI LL I NFLU ENCE Y OU R FUTURE 4 1 20 2016 HISTORY AS A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE FUTURE The less we know about the past and the present the more insecure must prove our judgment of the future Freud 1927 1961 Learning from History Learning from mistakes DO WE ALWAYS LEARN FROM HISTORY As a Society do we think historically Mark Twain History doesn t repeat itself but it does rhyme EXAMPLE FROM PSYCHOLOGY Qualitative Methods Early Aristotle Darwin Ethnology Lorenz Clinical Freud Introspection Early Cognition Social IO Qualitative Methods Late Health Psychology Psychology of Women Gilligan USA Human Computer Interaction Cognitive Neuroscience Mixed methods 15 5 1 20 2016 WHAT CAN THE STUDY OF HISTORY DO FOR US History as a Contribution to Liberal Education History Teaches Humility History Teaches a Healthy Skepticism History Influences Human Thought Processes 16 History as a Contribution to Liberal Education History Teaches Humility Enables us to overcome Narrow Provincial class and regional prejudices Watson 1966 Leading to a more informed and integrated perspective Important for advancement of understanding We are able to access great minds and solutions to our questions Skinner great mind Beyond dignity and Freedom Pavlov Classical Conditioning applied and its resurgence with Rescorla Wagner 17 History Teaches a Healthy Skepticism We can avoid straw men Craniometry Race and Sex Repressed memories Computers Brains Liberate ourselves from the persuasions of fashions Jaynes 1973 History Influences Human Thought Processes gives us distance not only from our immediate objective but from our own thinking Henle 1976 We become aware of the errors of others Keeps us thinking straight 18 6 1 20 2016 SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE STUDY OF HISTORY 19 CAN WE DEFINE HISTORY History is the interpretative study of the events of the human past The definition assumes empirical and explanatory components of the work of the Historian King Viney Woody 2009 20 CAN HISTORY BE OBJECTIVE History does not normally involve direct observations If they did would they be objective Painters or Photographers Skinner as a disbeliever in mind Are all sides of the argument portrayed fairly Chomsky Skinner and language 21 7 1 20 2016 THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT We are all biased have limitations I am not always right but I am never wrong Does the present bias how we view the past Are our prejudices influencing our view of past and present Can we objectively capture the past because of this 22 PRESENTISM AND HISTORICISM Historicism understanding the past for its own sake Presentism difficulties in separating historical facts from current biases Room for a middle ground IS THERE A PATTERN IN HISTORY The cyclical hypothesis The linear progressive hypothesis The linear regressive hypothesis The chaos hypothesis 8 1 20 2016 WHAT MAKES A PERSON GREAT Zeitgeist Time Ortgeist Place 25 WHAT MAKES A PERSON GREAT Great Person Do people cause things Wundt Freud Pavlov Is there causation in History William James Causal interplay between people and their environment King Viney Woody 2009 SO WHERE DO WE START AT THE BE GI N N I N G 27 9 1 20 2016 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY F R O M T H E AP A M I L E S T O N E S I N T H E H I S T O R Y O F PSYCHOLOGY 28 JAN 22ND 1561 Francis Bacon was born Bacon vitalized and articulated the modern philosophy of empiricism the foundation of all modern science including experimental psychology 1821 The Ohio legislature authorized construction of the state s first mental hospital Located in Cincinnati the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was ready to admit patients on January 26 1824 1891 Franz Alexander was born Alexander and his Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis promoted the expansion of psychoanalytic theory and practice to include important social hereditary and environmental factors He helped to establish the field of psychosomatic medicine 1963 Albert Bandura Dorothea Ross and Sheila Ross s article Imitation of Film Mediated Aggressive Models was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology This was the well known Bobo Doll study of imitated aggression 1969 Entered in B F Skinner s notebook Utopias are easy to enjoy but not to produce One can picture a good life by analyzing one s feelings but one can achieve it only by arranging environmental contingencies 1983 The APA Council of Representatives approved the purchase of Psychology Today magazine 10