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TEXT: The science of Psychology 3 by Laura A. King ISBN 978-1-259-34571-5/ MHID 1-259-34571-8
Question 1
In chapter 1 and 2, we became familiar with many different periods in the history of psychology. If you could choose just one period to live during, which would it be and why?
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Modern Period of Experimental Psychology
There are many attempts that have been made to explain the concepts of human behavior and the underlying mental processes. Psychology has a long history after emerging from the fields of physiology and philosophy. There are two main phases of the history of psychology; the period of subjective methods of studying psychology and the modern period of using objective data to study psychology. Wilhelm Wundt is recognized as the first experimental psychologist (Wertheimer, 2012). I would choose to live during the modern period of experimental psychology due to an array of beneficial factors.
The objective nature of the experimental psychology would ensure that the results of the study of a particular human behavior are not biased due to the informed opinion of the researcher (Kantowitz, Roediger III, & Elmes, 2014). Personal opinions can immensely affect the results and therefore, giving a false impression of a particular human behavior or mental process. Experimental psychology also enables all the scientists to make conventionally conclusions about various aspects of human behavior. The same experiment can be conducted in different places so that acquisition of same results would indicate conformity with the psychological principle under study. Experimental results also have high validity and reliability. Researchers also have control over the independent variables during the experiments. The nervous system and the brain are very important in psychological studies. Experimental psychology has made it easier to study brain functions using brain imaging technologies (King, 2013). Therefore, researchers cannot merely guess the mental processes but support their conclusions with evidence.
Clinical psychology also requires evidence-based practice in which psychologists offer care based on the best evidence. Evaluation of the best evidence can only be done by analyzing the experimental studies critically. Therefore, my choice would be to live during the modern psychology times so that I explain human behavior based on experimental evidence.
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Kantowitz, B., Roediger III, H., & Elmes, D. (2014). Experimental psychology. Cengage Learning.
King, A. L. (2013). The science of Psychology. 3rd edition by McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-1-259-34571-5/ MHID 1-259-34571-8.
Wertheimer, M. (2012). A brief history of psychology. Taylor & Francis.
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