The discourses of psychology and history

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[...] To tie the two subjects together, we can consider a history of psychology, which is the topic of the final paper reviewed entitled “Teaching the History of Psychology in Context or Breadth Leads to ‘Shallow' Learning.” This paper is somewhat of a combination of the two subjects. It takes a psychological approach to information gathering and the way it lists its findings; however, the information being gathered is from texts written by other people. The method of gathering information in this case will not be coming under scrutiny since it is merely examining what was written; the analysis in this case will be the only thing held up to scrutiny as in a paper written for a history class. [...]

[...] The discourses of psychology and history As students are still required to take courses outside of their chosen discipline until working at a post-graduate level, students will find that different disciplines have vastly differing approaches to their own studies. It is difficult to place a quantitative value on the effectiveness of these different disciplines; rather, a more useful approach would be to compare two different approaches to discourse that two different disciplines take and take into consideration that these differing approaches will both have their own advantages and disadvantages. [...]

[...] Within this section it is typical to have a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the particular methods used to procure the information, along with some suggestions as to better ways to conduct similar studies in the future. After this section is explained, the following step will be the results. This section centers on just the actual data gathered; there is generally no analysis of the actual data. This is saved for the next section. A discussion/analysis of the data centers on whether or not the original hypothesis was correct. [...]