Glossary H
Glossary H
Deutsch: Historische Forschung / Español: Investigación Histórica / Português: Pesquisa Histórica / Français: Recherche Historique / Italian: Ricerca Storica
Historical research in the psychology context refers to the study and analysis of past events, ideas, theories, and practices to understand the development and evolution of psychological concepts, theories, and practices over time. This type of research involves examining historical documents, records, and other sources to gain insights into how psychological knowledge has progressed, how past societies understood and treated mental health, and how historical contexts influenced the development of psychology as a discipline.
Deutsch: Historisches Trauma / Español: Trauma histórico / Português: Trauma histórico / Français: Traumatisme historique / Italiano: Trauma storico
Historical Trauma refers to the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding across generations, resulting from cataclysmic events such as genocide, slavery, colonization, or systemic oppression. Unlike individual trauma, which affects a single person, historical trauma manifests as a collective experience that persists through familial, cultural, and societal transmission. Its study bridges clinical psychology, sociology, and historical analysis to address the enduring impacts of unresolved suffering on marginalized communities.
Historicism is defined as the study of the past for its own sake, without attempting to interpret and evaluate it in terms of current knowledge and standards, as is the case with presentism. Please see also Presentism.
- History as a threat to internal validity : History as a threat to internal validity is a change in the dependent variable due to the occurrence of an event between the testing of levels of the independent variable.