This post is a short excerpt from my book Master Introductory Psychology Modern Approaches to Psychology The diversity of questions that psychology aims to answer necessarily requires a diversity of approaches. In attempts to answer questions on all nature of … Read More
Putting the Pieces Together – How to Remember Early Approaches to Psychology
This is an activity I used in my AP Psychology classes for remembering the differences between several of the early approaches to psychology. I learned this from the Instructor Resources from Schacter, Gilbert, and Wegner’s excellent textbook, and it was … Read More
Key Terms for History and Approaches
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: History-and-Approaches-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition Plato Aristotle nativism philosophical empiricism … Read More
Finding Freud’s Legacy in Neuroscience?
This is a link to an interesting article from Discover Magazine which looks at the intersection of Freudian psychoanalysis and modern-day neuroscience research. It covers quite a lot of ground along the way, considering cases of brain damage, anosognosia, Damasio’s … Read More
Great Resource for Early Psychology References
For those who haven’t come across it, I’d like to mention Christopher D. Green’s excellent page Classics in the History of Psychology. You can find all sorts of original papers from leading figures in psychology, from William James to B.F. Skinner … Read More
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