Approaches Key Terms

Question 1

Science

Answer 1

Discovering the physical & natural world systematically & objectively using empirical method (e.g. observation, experimentation).

Question 2

Systematic

Answer 2

Using a fixed or controlled method (e.g. following a standardised plan in investigations). Allowed for replicability

Question 3

Objectivity

Answer 3

Absence of bias in research - findings are not influenced by personal opinions.

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

Scientists must test their ideas & base their conclusions on data collected from the world, this is key to scientific methodology.

Question 5

Wundt

Answer 5

‘Father of experimental psychology’

Set up first psychological lab in Leipzig in the 1870s.

Used scientific methods to help establish psychology as an independent field of scientific research.

Question 6

Structuralism

Answer 6

Wundt’s research which attempted to uncover the hidden structure of the mind by describing it in terms of its simplest definable components.

Lots of his work focused on structure of sensation and perception.

Question 7

Introspection

Answer 7

Wundt’s carefully controlled experimental method where participants objectively* reported thoughts around a sensory object. Wundt made inferences on mental processes.

Question 8

Reinforcement

Answer 8

(Positive/Negative)
Stimulus is added/removed to encourage behaviour.

Question 9

Punishment

Answer 9

(Positive/Negative)