\"Psychology has a long past but a short history.\"\u00a0This brief statement by one of the pioneers of psychological research, Herman Ebbinghaus, captures the history of psychology as a discipline. Though it is relatively new as a formal academic subject, the questions it seeks to answer have been around since the beginning of man. In this module, we will review the history of psychology as a discipline, by learning about both its ancient philosophical (\"prescientific\") roots and its more recent reincarnation as a \"scientific\"\u00a0field of study.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
“Psychology has a long past but a short history.”\u00a0This brief statement by one of the pioneers of psychological research, Herman Ebbinghaus, captures the history of psychology as a discipline. Though it is relatively new as a formal academic subject, the questions it seeks to answer have been around since the beginning of man. In this module, we will review the history of psychology as a discipline, by learning about both its ancient philosophical (“prescientific”) roots and its more recent reincarnation as a “scientific”\u00a0field of study.<\/p>\n
One of the nice things about studying psychology is that, unlike when you choose to study something like deep sea marine life\u00a0(organisms that you\u00a0may not have spontaneously encountered before), you already have years of your own human experience living, breathing, thinking, choosing, and behaving to fall back on (not to mention\u00a0all the time you have\u00a0spent\u00a0observing\u00a0others around you live, breathe, think, choose, and behave). But given the diversity of experience across students who might take this course, it will be\u00a0useful for\u00a0you to begin by\u00a0taking\u00a0the following general psychology knowledge quiz to see just how much your experience has translated into actual psychological knowledge.<\/p>\n
Stop your reading and click here to\u00a0complete a brief quiz<\/a>. (Note: You will need to log in to Moodle to complete the quiz)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n