LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading and discussing Chapter 1, students should: 1.1 Understand that there is no single definition of psychology that is accepted by all people. 1.2 Be familiar with the various activities that contemporary psychologists do. 1.3 Be acquainted with the idea of presentism and historicism and the approaches to writing history – zeitgeist approach, great-person approach, historical development approach, and eclectic approach. 1.4 Understand the reasons for studying the history of psychology. 1.5 Be familiar with the discussion of “what is science?” 1.6 Be acquainted with the views of scientific development of Popper and Kuhn. 1.7 Understand the issues involved in the science of psychology. 1.8 Be familiar with persistent questions in psychology including 1. The nature of human nature 2. How the mind and body are related 3. Types of dualism 4. Nativism vs. empiricism 5. Mechanism vs. vitalism 6. Rationalism vs. irrationalism 7. Relationship between humans and nonhuman animals 8. Origin of human knowledge 9. Objective vs. subjective reality 10. The problem of the “self”. 11. Universalism vs. relativism