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2021-01-13
What is the history of psychology?

As Ebbinghaus noted in the 19th century, psychology has a long past but a short history. It's remarkable to me that he made that statement so shortly after the founding of psychology in 1879. This course covers that long history and the short past. We start in the present and fly all the way back to prehistory. Then, we cover what I deem the four territories, philosophy, biology, mathematics, and social science, that psychology took parts from and made its own. Eventually, we cover the introspective and behavioral eras of psychology. Optionally, you may write a paper (to replace a test grade) on a topic from gestalt or psychopathological psychology. I have written those chapters but did not include them in the course because of time constraints.


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