WHAT KIND OF SCIENCE IS PSYCHOLOGY?

12.4

What Have You Learned?

Reflect back at what you have learned about the history of psychology.

Take a notebook or a piece of paper and reflect on what you have learned about psychology and its history.

Try to answer some of the following questions. Remember you can use this worksheet to help you organize your thoughts.

  1. When did psychology become an academic discipline or a profession?
  2. Which prominent psychologists or psychological theories do you know and how are these connected?
  3. Can you name important events, movements, or turning points in the history of psychology?

Compare your notes to those you made at the start of course. Has your view of psychology changed?

Lizenz

University of Basel