10cp

History and Philosophy of Psychology

Prerequisites Entry into BPsych(Hons) or PGDipPsych

Teaching Organisation Two contact hours per week: combination of lectures, seminars and presentations of research papers.

This unit aims to develop in students a critical appreciation of the breadth and limitations of the scientific approach to psychology. Students will be introduced to an historical analysis of prevailing social, political, and religious thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how these have reflected changing models of human behaviour and reality. Students will consider the presence of assumptions and bias (such as sexist and racist assumptions) in all psychological theory and research, and the effects of these upon individuals. It is hoped that such consideration will help students to define new goals, principles, and practices for a psychology in the twenty-first century.

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