Naturalistic vs Personalistic Approach in Psychology
Personalistic vs the Naturalistic Viewpoint
History is a troublesome word in the English language, having a number of meanings and usages. We often use the term without really considering the underlying concepts it represents. We use history to stand for actual events that took place in the past. The view of history as a collection of events, a flow of actions and reactions is as old has human curiosity about things happened before their own time. The human mind has always seemed to seek consistency in things, perhaps more than is really to be found. . History has made us and society who we are, and the past will always affect the present and not so much our future like so many of us perceive it does. Psychology is still a very young study. The zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethnical, spiritual, or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, socio cultural direction, and mood associated with an era. The personalistic position in scientific history is the one that surrounds the idea that every person forms the course of our history, and their discoveries are solely their own and have they themselves have molded and changed our world throughout the years. This idea if often trusted upon because at a glance it seems so obviously correct. When we learn about the past, this if often all we learn; that these great minds came up with these single great ideas and the world was never the same again. We are to think that these people held the sole responsibility of changing the world and that they were all creative geniuses alone. This outlook on history is attention grabbing because great scientists are given an enormous amount of credit for their findings. The personalistic position is also known as the “Great Man” theory. It is important that we as
individuals study history. It is interesting because it allows us to see more reasons as to why we should appreciate and try and
History is a troublesome word in the English language, having a number of meanings and usages. We often use the term without really considering the underlying concepts it represents. We use history to stand for actual events that took place in the past. The view of history as a collection of events, a flow of actions and reactions is as old has human curiosity about things happened before their own time. The human mind has always seemed to seek consistency in things, perhaps more than is really to be found. . History has made us and society who we are, and the past will always affect the present and not so much our future like so many of us perceive it does. Psychology is still a very young study. The zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethnical, spiritual, or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, socio cultural direction, and mood associated with an era. The personalistic position in scientific history is the one that surrounds the idea that every person forms the course of our history, and their discoveries are solely their own and have they themselves have molded and changed our world throughout the years. This idea if often trusted upon because at a glance it seems so obviously correct. When we learn about the past, this if often all we learn; that these great minds came up with these single great ideas and the world was never the same again. We are to think that these people held the sole responsibility of changing the world and that they were all creative geniuses alone. This outlook on history is attention grabbing because great scientists are given an enormous amount of credit for their findings. The personalistic position is also known as the “Great Man” theory. It is important that we as
individuals study history. It is interesting because it allows us to see more reasons as to why we should appreciate and try and
References: George Berkeley. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved on April 19, 2012 from http://www.icp.utm.edu/berkeley Naturalistic and Personalistic Attitude. Retrieved on April 19, 2012 from http://www.springerlink.com/content/xr6306r11223 Schultz & Schultz. (2012). A history on Modern Psychology. Chapters 1-2