Week 4

     Through this week there has been a couple of areas that I have learned to incorporate into my research, and those are using journals and research notes. I have never actually used journals as a research method. Somehow I never looked into them, maybe assuming that they don’t have enough information in them. This is actually the opposite, they are full of information. I feel as if, it’s almost a compressed book. Whether it’s from a bibliography or citing that can assist you. Also when you advance your search you can find a strong journal that can have limitless effects on your journal. This has helped me broaden my research from more than just books and the internet. As for the research notes, I found them extremely helpful. It helps track what you have done, through that you can see better what you need to change in your search.  This has been helpful in also helping me make my research deeper and hopefully more of a pleasure to read. While trying to make my research topic deeper, there wasn’t really too many things that I felt were difficult. But it was quite a process trying to eliminate journals and articles that I found. As there were quite a few that were very informative.

Week 3

 “A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective (Shiraer), “how it relates to Early Psychology.

 

  The book “A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective (Shiraer),” has introduced some different periods that involved psychology. Through these I have learned more about early psychology. It brought to light one question tome that caught my eye. “The history of psychology is the study of psychology’s past. But how can we study it (Shiraer 1.)?”It sounds so simple but it makes sense. We can’t study it because it’s already happened, but with laboratories such as was influenced by Wundt; we can compare variables from the past and see how to make adjustments for the future.

     I have always used the internet as well as books from library to preform research. Since class I have been introduced to book.google.com, and I have found that it’s really helpful. Although some don’t have full copies of the book, if I enter in my search in different ways I can come up with different books. This giving me much more books to do research from.

     Through making my search deeper, I was hoping to get more early psychology information.  By gathering as much as I can, I can filter through it and see what I want to use. By filling it into the gaps in my topic. This will give me something to prove that Wundt’s making of laboratories has changed the outcome on today’s psychology.

 

 

Citing:

 

1.       Book Shiraev, Eric. A History of Psychology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication, 2011. Print.

Narrowing topic through sources

     While doing the researching on sources, it gave me great information that was not in some of my Psychology books. That’s what I find interesting. Like how much of an influence William James actually had on the development of psychology, as did Wundt. Wundt has been known to actually of gotten more recognition for his laboratories.  These two men also had a few things in common, maybe that made them great at discovering psychology.

     I don’t know that they were new search strategies, as much as I paid more attention to them. This was actually beneficial. I think that sometimes you seem to just find information without looking into the stability of the information. By paying more attention the topic which is about psychology today, and my google source being up to date. I believe that it’s easier to get information of Wundt and how he influenced today’s psychology.

     I would like to research more about today’s psychology. I feel like there’s so much out there. It’s just the matter of practicing on my google searches and making them educated sources. I find that I have learned more areas to focus on; in order to get accurate web searches, I need to do a better job. At the same time I want to use more of library books, I feel like technology gets us and we lose our roots.