Week 1 History of Psychology
Abstract
According to American Psychological Association (APA), “At the end of the 18th century, the leading minds of the age believed that psychology was naturally constrained from rising to the level of a natural science. The Transformation of Psychology: Influences of 19th Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were mundane during the 19th century that fostered a radical reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology,” (APA, 2013). This paper will explain the roots in early philosophy, leading into the 19th century, which influenced the development of modern psychology. At the same time, it will be accompanied by the explanation of historical relation with philosophers to the beginnings of psychology as a formal discipline as well as identifying western tradition’s major philosophers in contributing the formation of psychology as a discipline and the developing of psychological science during the 19th century.
History of Psychology
Historically, psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior dating back to the ancient Greeks and is still in its infancy. Psychology was originally the branch of philosophy until the late 1800s, progressing as independent scientific discipline. However, the history of psychology unfolds that many other issues still debated by psychologists today are established in early philosophical traditions (Psychoid.net, 2002-2010). According to Furumoto (1989), the distinction between both old and new history of psychology provides different approaches that best describe the history of psychology. Through the old history of psychology, internal, personalistic, and presentist approaches emphasize the triumphs of “great” psychologists and philosophers in concentrating on the celebration of “classic studies” and “breakthrough discoveries” in retelling and preserving the “great events” to help psychology
According to American Psychological Association (APA), “At the end of the 18th century, the leading minds of the age believed that psychology was naturally constrained from rising to the level of a natural science. The Transformation of Psychology: Influences of 19th Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were mundane during the 19th century that fostered a radical reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology,” (APA, 2013). This paper will explain the roots in early philosophy, leading into the 19th century, which influenced the development of modern psychology. At the same time, it will be accompanied by the explanation of historical relation with philosophers to the beginnings of psychology as a formal discipline as well as identifying western tradition’s major philosophers in contributing the formation of psychology as a discipline and the developing of psychological science during the 19th century.
History of Psychology
Historically, psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior dating back to the ancient Greeks and is still in its infancy. Psychology was originally the branch of philosophy until the late 1800s, progressing as independent scientific discipline. However, the history of psychology unfolds that many other issues still debated by psychologists today are established in early philosophical traditions (Psychoid.net, 2002-2010). According to Furumoto (1989), the distinction between both old and new history of psychology provides different approaches that best describe the history of psychology. Through the old history of psychology, internal, personalistic, and presentist approaches emphasize the triumphs of “great” psychologists and philosophers in concentrating on the celebration of “classic studies” and “breakthrough discoveries” in retelling and preserving the “great events” to help psychology
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