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Essay: What is the History of Psychology?

History of psychology

Q In at least 1000 words, provide your personal reaction to this video on the history of psychology (https://youtu.be/edMMPist5rA). Respond to this video in light of all your work in this course. Your response should include • Any major omissions you noticed in the video. Keep in mind this is based on your personal opinion (but I strongly encourage you to find something). If the video left out something you regard as fairly unimportant, don't mention it. • What would you state differently if you produced the video. • Speculate as to what the next chapter (chapters?) of psychology might look like.

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The history of psychology video has primarily focused on the origins of psychology and early schools of thought such as structuralism and functionalism. Then she introduced evolutionary psychology, which is a developed discipline of study that aims to explain psychological functions such as perception, language, and memory as the outcomes of evolutionary psychology. The video then focused on Freudian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment procedures aimed at treating psychological disorders by bringing unconscious information into conscious consciousness via dream analysis and talk therapy.