1. Professor Eamonn Ferguson
Conceptual & Historical Issues in Psychology & Personality and Individuals
Dr Peter Bibby
Dr Claire Lawrence
Professor Eamonn Ferguson
Tuesday 4-6pm
Pope C14

2. Aims of CHIP & PIN
CHIP
To present and discuss the scientific, historical and philosophical underpinnings of psychology as a discipline
To demonstrate the inherent variability and diversity in the theoretical approaches to psychology
To supply a good knowledge and critical understanding of the influences on psychological theories
PIN
To provide detailed discussion on main theories of personality in psychology
To present links between personality and individuals differences and relevant applications
To examine IQ and intelligence within the scope of individual differences

3. Conceptual and Historical Issues Lectures (Semester 1)
An introduction to Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
The Ancient Greeks
The Medieval Thinkers
Consciousness Invented
The Science of Human Nature
On the Threshold of Psychology
The Study of Consciousness
The Death of Consciousness
The Return of Cognition
Is Psychology a Science?

4. Personality and Individuals Lectures (Semester 2)
Historical overview and what is a trait?
Eysenck’s model
Gray's Model
Big 5
IQ and trait complexes
Social learning theory (Locus of control and self-efficacy)
Personality and abnormal personality
Personality and occupational psychology
Personality and criminal behaviour
Personality and health

5. Workshop (Semester 1) Workshop (1 to 2hrs) 20th October 2009
An introduction to annotated bibliographies
A list of topics from both CHIP & PIN
Confirmation of Submission Deadline

6. Assessment One Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (about 100 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. It is expected that students will identify no more than 20 relevant articles.
To be submitted 11th January 2010.
One 3hr Examination
1hr Multiple Choice Questions (60)
2hrs for 2 Essays
1 Essay for CHIP
1 Essay for PIN

7. How the Annotated Bibliography Contributes to the Overall Mark
The examination contributes 95% of the final mark
The annotated bibliography contributes 5% of the final mark on a pass/fail basis.
Examination - 65%
Annotated Bibliography – pass
Overall mark – 66.8%
Annotated Bibliography – fail
Overall mark – 61.8%

8. What happens when the coursework is one grade higher?
Bibliography Weighting
Exam Mark
Pass
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
5.0
1.5 3
4.5 6
7.5 15
19.3 16 17 18 19 20 25
28.8
25.7
26.4
27.1
27.8
28.5 32
35.4
32.6
33.2
33.8
34.4 35 38
41.1
38.4
38.8
39.2
39.6 40 42
44.9
42.3
42.6
42.9
43.2
43.5 45
47.8
45.3
45.6
45.9
46.2
46.5 48
50.6
48.4
48.8
49.2
49.6 50 52
54.4
52.3
52.6
52.9
53.2
53.5 55
57.3
55.3
55.6
55.9
56.2
56.5 58
60.1
58.4
58.8
59.2
59.6 60 62
63.9
62.3
62.6
62.9
63.2
63.5 65
66.8
65.3
65.6
65.9
66.2
66.5 68
69.6
68.4
68.8
69.2 70 72
73.4
72.6
73.2
73.8
74.4 75 78
79.1
78.7
79.4
80.1
80.8
81.5 85
85.8

9. What happens when the coursework is two grades higher?
Bibliography Weighting
Exam Mark
Pass
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
5.0
2.5 5
7.5 10
12.5 15
19.3
16.7
18.4
20.1
21.8
23.5 25
28.8
26.3
27.6
28.9
30.2
31.5 32
35.4 33 34 35 36 37 38
41.1
38.7
39.4
40.1
40.8
41.5 42
44.9
42.6
43.2
43.8
44.4 45
47.8
45.7
46.4
47.1
48.5 48
50.6
48.7
49.4
50.1
50.8
51.5 52
54.4
52.6
53.2
53.8 55
57.3
55.7
56.4
57.1
57.8
58.5 58
60.1
58.7
59.4
60.8
61.5 62
63.9
62.6
63.2
63.8
64.4 65
66.8
65.7
66.4
67.1
67.8
68.5 68
69.6 69 70 71 72 73
73.4
73.3
74.6
75.9
77.2
78.5 78
79.1
78.7
79.4
80.1
80.8
81.5 85
85.8

10. What happens when the coursework gets a fail?
Bibliography Weighting
Exam Mark
Fail
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
3.8
7.6
11.4
15.2 19 15
17.3
19.6
21.9
24.2
26.5 25
26.3
27.6
28.9
30.2
31.5 32
32.6
33.2
33.8
34.4 35 38 42
41.6
41.2
40.8
40.4 40 45
44.3
43.6
42.9
42.2
41.5 48 47 46 44 43 52
50.6
49.2
47.8
46.4 55
53.3
51.6
49.9
48.2
46.5 58 56 54 50 62
59.6
57.2
54.8
52.4 65
62.3
56.9
54.2
51.5 68 59 53 72
68.6
65.2
61.8
58.4 78 74 70 66 85
80.3
75.6
70.9
66.2
61.5

11. Workload
A number of students last year were concerned about their workloads.
So how much should you be doing?
The university assumes that each single credit is worth 10 hours study time
For a 20 credit module that means 200 hours.
For this module there will be approx 25 hours contact time so that means 175 hours outside the class
Assuming that the annotated bibliography takes at most 40 hours that leaves 135 hours
22 weeks of lectures so approximately 6 hours a week of study for this module.

12. Histories of Psychology
Prior to the 1970’s there were numerous books on the history of psychology mainly written by academics who identified themselves as psychologists
For the most part the underlying purposes of these histories seemed to be the establishment of Psychology as a scientific discipline and to show it’s long history (i.e. it follows on from the Ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and Plato) and continuity through the ‘great men’.
Richards (2002) cites the cliché ascribed to Ebbinghaus “Psychology has a short history but a long past”
Post 1960’s the histories of Psychology changed following challenges from historians and sociologists of science.
The ‘great men’ (and a few women) approach was more or less abandoned.
The emphasis was placed on psychological practice and not practitioners.

13. Books
Modern
Brysbaert & Rastle (2009) Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology,
Danziger, K. (1997) Naming the mind. How Psychology Discovered its Language
Latour, B (1987) Science in Action. How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
Leahey (2004) A History of Psychology. Main Currents in Psychological Thought
Smith, R. (1997) Fontana History of the Human Sciences
Classics
Boring E.G. (1950) A History of Experimental Psychology
Hearnshaw, L. (1964) A Short History of British Psychology
Klein, D.B. (1970) A History of Scientific Psychology: Its Origins and Philosophical Background
Miller, G.A. (1962) Psychology: the Science of Mental Life
Watson, R.I. (1963) The Great Psychologists – Aristotle to Freud.

14. Other Readings A list of readings are available for each lecture.
All readings are available in the library (physically or electronically)

Useful resources
Useless resource
Wikipedia

15. Another Useful Resource
The BBC programme “In Our Time” is a collection of discussions about how different philosophers (and others) have changed the way we think
Here’s a short selection of links:
St Thomas Acquinas, Islam and the Greeks, Avicenna, Socrates, Ockham’s Razor, Spinoza, Popper, Hobbes, The Mind/Body Problem, Nature vs Nurture, Francis Bacon, Darwin, Neuroscience, A History of the Brain, The Humours, Artificial Intelligence, Psychoanalysis