85-380 In Search of Mind: The History of Psychology

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will focus on three aspects of the origin and growth of experimental psychology. The first is the prehistory of psychology, where the connection of the discipline to the development of modern science, and in particular, its origins in philosophy and physiology, is examined. The second focus of the course is on the different approaches and attempts to define the field that have contested for dominance during much of the life of the discipline. The final major focus of the course is on the modern period roughly the last forty years where the influences that brought about the modern counterrevolution in psychology will be examined, and where some conjecture about likely future directions will occur. Two prior courses in psychology.

Prerequisites: none listed

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