Exam 1: Introduction: Studying the History of Psychology

German psychologist __________ observed that psychological ideas,including philosophies of human mind and behavior,have been around since antiquity,but that psychology as an experimentally-based scientific discipline has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century.This observation is summed up in the phrase "Psychology has a long past but only a short history."

The process whereby local or national contexts influence the development of psychology,including the way in which ideas from other contexts are imported from elsewhere and altered to fit local conditions,is referred to as

Match the definition with the approach to history. -internalism

Match the definition with the approach to history. -the Great Man approach

As part of his efforts to establish the history of psychology as a subfield of psychology Robert I.Watson accomplished all of the following EXCEPT

Match the definition with the term. -presentism

Match the definition with the term. -historicism

Match the definition with the approach to history. -historicism

Match the definition with the term. -indigenization

Which of the following is NOT one of the benefits of studying the history of psychology,as described in the textbook?

Historians who adopt sophisticated presentism argue that

Surveying the state of the field in the 1980s,historian of psychology Laurel Furumoto observed that histories of psychology were moving beyond mere celebratory accounts of the past.The move to include more diversity in these histories is something she termed __________.

Historians who argue that the "spirit of the times" influenced individuals' achievements and the way in which they were received are adopting what approach to history?

The continuity-discontinuity debate refers to disagreement

In the Great Man approach to history,the focus is on

Reflexivity refers to the

When writing history,a focus on the development of ideas in their intellectual and disciplinary context is referred to as __________,while a focus on the influence of social and political factors on the development of ideas is referred to as __________.

What is the new history of psychology?

Match the definition with the approach to history. -sophisticated presentism

Match the definition with the term. -historiography