Approaches

Question 1

what did wundt open

Answer 1

Institute for experimental psychology at the university at leipzig in germany 1879.
first labatroy dedicated to psychology

Question 2

who is the father of psychology

Answer 2

Wundt

Question 3

what did wudnt do (seperate)

Answer 3

seperated psychology from philosophy by analysing the workings of the mind in a more structured way

Question 4

what is introspection

Answer 4

examination of ones own thought processes

Question 5

qualitative data characteristics

Answer 5

deals with descriptions
can be observed not measured
tastes. smells. appearance

Question 6

quantitative data characteristics

Answer 6

deals with number
can be measured
length, height, area, volume

Question 7

objective characterisics

Answer 7

observation of measurable fact
not influenced by feelings or prejudice
unbiased

Question 8

subjective characteristics

Answer 8

personal opinions
assumptions
biased

Question 9

reliability defenition

Answer 9

consistent in providing the same results every time

Question 10

valid defenition

Answer 10

measuring what is supposed to be measured (Accuracy)

Question 11

what is the paradigm shift

Answer 11

progress/movement of approaches in psychology

Question 12

1.Rene Descartes 1596-1650 believed:

Answer 12

mind and body are independent-avilism

Question 13

2.1632-1704 John Locke

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all experience comes from the sense- empiricism

Question 14

3.1809-1882 charles darwin

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evolutionairy theory, all behaviour has changed over success

Question 15

4. 17th - 19th centuary, experimental philosophy

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psychology is part of the broader discipline of philosophy

Question 16

1879 william wundt

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opens first experimental psychology lab and psychology emeres as disipline in its own right

Question 17

1900s sigmund freud psychodynamic approach

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emphasis on the unconscious mind on behaviour

Question 18

1913 john watson + bf skinner behavioural approach

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behaviourist - all behaviour is influenced by learning

Question 19

1950s- carl rogers + abraham maslows humanistic approach

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developed the humanistic approach -emphasised the importance of free will

Question 20

1960s cognitive approach

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study of mental processes in psychology but more scientific than wundt

Question 21

1960s albert bandura social learning theory

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slt draws together behaviourist and cognitive approaches

Question 22

1980s onwards, biological approach

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brain and biological process more greatly understood due to advances in technology

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21st centuary, cognitive neuroscience

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brings together cognitive a biological approaches, investigates how biological structures influence mental state

Question 24

what is the behaviourist approach

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way of explaining behaviour in terms of whats observable and in terms of learning

Question 25

what is classical conditioning

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learning by association

Question 26

what was Pavlovs study