Origins of Psychology

Question 1

Who was Willhelm Wundt

Answer 1

Father of Experimental Psychology
Separated psychology from philosophy, studied the mind in a scientific way

Question 2

What is introspection

Answer 2

Psychological method which involves analysing your own thoughts and feelings internally.

Question 3

Why did Wundt use introspection

Answer 3

To study sensation and perception

Question 4

Problems with introspection

Answer 4

Doesn’t explain how the mind works, isn’t objective
Not reliable, accounts can’t be confirmed

Question 5

What is reductionism

Answer 5

Things can be reduced to simple cause-and-effect processes.

Question 6

5 features that make something a science

Answer 6

Objectivity
Control
Predictability
Hypothesis testing
Replication

Question 7

FOR psychology as a science

Answer 7

ALLPORT said psychology has the same aims as science- to predict, understand and control
Behaviourist, cognitive and biological approaches to psychology all use scientific procedures.

Question 8

AGAINST Psychology as a science

Answer 8

Hard to get a representative sample of the population for a study, can’t reliably be generalised
Unreliable methods