origins of psychology Flashcards
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modern psychology
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scientific. aims to describe, control and predict behaviour. cognitive+biological rely on scientific methods such as lab studies to study behaviour. suggests that 20th century and beyond, psychology has established as a science.
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subjective data
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not all approaches are scientific. humanistic=individual/subjective exp; reject objective. psychodynamic=case studies. cannot be generalised. suggests it may not be useful to study human mind/behaviour.
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paradigm
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Thomas Kuhn: for subject to be scientific, it must have a paradigm(set of principles, laws, theories, knowledge that all people agree on) psyc is not this as there are many disagreements between approaches. therefore, it is not a science.
