Origins Of Psychology

Question 1

Wundt’s contribution to psychology

Answer 1

-one of the first to argue that you can use scientific methods to study human thinking
-his study helped separate psychology from philosophy.
HOWEVER
- introspection was unreliable
- mental processes happen automatically and we are unaware of how we do them.

Question 2

What is introspection

Answer 2

Trying to analyse how the mind works by asking people to think carefully about how they do Mental processes such as focusing on one voice out of all voices in a noisy room

Question 3

What did Wundt do?

Answer 3

• he was one of the founding fathers of psychology.
• Created the first psychology lab in 1875
• he aimed to study mental processes systematically
• he carried out introspection