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Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
Putting the HIP into CHIP
How to Interest Students in an Unfamiliar Subject
Geoff BunnManchester Metropolitan University
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
A required level II undergraduate course 160 students 1 hr lecture each week over 2 semesters 10 credits 1 course work essay (1,500 words) 1 final exam question (from 6) in 1 hour
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Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
Interrogative Themes
Situated knowledge (investigative traditions in Psychology)
The construction of gender
Three Investigative Paradigms in Psychology
Francis Galton: Psychometric
Sigmund Freud: Psychodynamic
Wilhelm Wundt: Psychophysics
Using Tools: Psychometrics
Does it work?
Is it useful?
Telling Stories: Psychodynamic
What does it mean? Does it help me to understand
my experience?
Puzzle Solving: Psychophysics
Does it exist? Is it real?
Psychology has many different historical foundations.
“The human being is not the eternal basis of human history and human culture but a historical
and cultural artifact.” (Nikolas Rose, 1996)
Portrait of Sir Thomas Lucy and His Family by Cornelius Johnson (c.1625)
Diurnal and
seasonal time.
‘The industrial revolution demanded a greater
synchronisation of labour.’ (E.P. Thompson, 1967)
“This was not merely an idea, but a
revelation. At the sight of that skull, I seemed to see all of a sudden, lighted up as a vast
plain under a flaming sky, the problem of the nature of the criminal—an atavistic being
who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive
humanity and the inferior animals.”
– Lombroso (1874)
“In hysteria, every thought, every symptom was linked to sex…The hysteric’s tale...was a narrative of seduction.” (Lunbeck, 1994)
‘These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.
Memory fingers in their hair of murders,’- Wilfred Owen
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
Interrogative Themes
Psychological categories and human kinds
Power and subjectivityPop psychology and psychological
expertise
What’s the difference between a broken heart and a broken bone?
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
The Passions of the Soul
Do Psychological Objects Have Historical Continuity?
The Psychology of Emotion
“There is no physiology of the mind any more than there is psychology of the nervous system.”
– John Hughlings Jackson
Natural Objects (Indifferent Kinds) & Psychological Objects (Interactive Kinds)
Natural objects: rocks, atoms, electrons, chemicals, cells, stars, genes, electricity, weather, hormones, viruses, bones, trees, dinosaurs, gravity.
Psychological objects: depression, love, melancholy, intelligence, schizophrenia, self-esteem, autism, attitudes, motivation, emotion, dyslexia, cognition, behaviour, nostalgia, mind, soul, ADHD, shell shock, sexuality, race, personality, development, introversion, feeblemindedness, hysteria, temperament.
Psychological Objects & Human Kinds
Psychological objects: depression, love, melancholy, intelligence, self-esteem, attitudes, motivation, emotion, dyslexia, cognition, behaviour, nostalgia, mind, soul, sexuality, race, personality, development, temperament.
Human kinds: schizophrenic, autistic child, child with ADHD, gifted child, introvert, genius, shell shocked soldier, paedophile, multiple personality, hysterical woman, father, feebleminded child, vulnerable adult, hero, rough sleeper, alcoholic, criminal man, single mum.
Psychological Categories
Emotional labour
Power & Expertise
Popular psychology
“Race”
‘Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they
confuse with the absolute truth.’ - Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
An optional level III undergraduate course 60 students 1 hr lecture each week over 2 semesters 20 credits Essay and a reflective journal of readings