Origins Of Psychology

Question 1

Founding father of modern psychology?

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

Wilhelm Wundt ④

Answer 2

• 1920
• first lab (1879)
• introspection guy
• believe you can study psychologyscientifically

Question 3

Introspection?

Answer 3

To look inside ( ones self)

Question 4

Charles Darwin? ③
Evolution

Answer 4

_ Human/animal behavior has changed overtime
- genes can survive and reproduce
- human behavior is innate (born w/)

Question 5

John Locke ( 1632 - 1704)

Answer 5

• proposed empiricism
• all experience can be obtained

Question 6

Empiricism?

Answer 6

the idea that all learning comes from only experience and observations

Question 7

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

(French philosopher)

Answer 7

• first to suggest mind and body are independent.
• “I think therefore l am.”
• thought requires a thinker → only evidence of consciousness

Question 8

Task:
‘Standardized procedure’? -objective
What part of procedure was standardized?
What does it show in psychology?

Answer 8

• Keep everything the same for all participants - fair investigating
• constant metronome beat (600 bpm) + pitch and instruction
  • understands what happens in mind/brain. Similarity between thoughts.
• can be replicated to get same orsimilar results.
  • allows us to replicate

Question 9

Standardized procedure: why is it a good thing?

Answer 9

↑ reliability of results