Orgins In Psych

Question 1

What did Wundt (and introspection) do?

Answer 1

First attempt to study mind using scientific methods and very controlled
Studies reaction time or perception tasks
Presented people with standardised sensory events like metronome and asked to report their reactions
People reported their present experiences - he called this introspection -looking at one’s own mind
Analysed in structuralism
Made theories from these studies to exaplin higher mental functions
Know as cultural psychology

Question 2

Origins of psych PEELs

Answer 2

P scientific?
E used controlled, objective because of metronome
E but inferred from the reaction times so subjective + looked at own perception
L still a challenge today
P led to paradigm shift to non science psychodynamic
E emotions are from psych and unconscious mind, not observable - Freud
E so should Wundts idea be rejected
L but Pavlov and skinner brought psych closer to Wundt
P Wundt did the same as cog psych today
E mental processes studied in 1977
E full circle to Wundt again but aided by MRIs etc
L led to science rev