Approaches - origins of psychology Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
Who was founding father of psych?
A
Wundt (1879)
2
Q
What did his work attempt to do?
A
He tried to understand psychological processes rather than philosophical or biological processes
3
Q
How did Wundt get psychology to emerge as a science?
A
He used controlled, standardised procedures which made the study of the mind more objective that its philosophical roots
E.G, he studied reaction time, systematically changing stimuli he presented to ppts. and measuring how long it took to respond
