Origins of psychology and Wundt

Question 1

Who was Wundt and what did he do?

Answer 1

-father of psychology
-1879 opened the first psychological lab in Germany
-beginning of psychology as a science and broke off from philosophy

Question 2

What was Introspection?

Answer 2

-first systematic experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of:
thoughts,
images
sensations

Question 3

What is structuralism?

Answer 3

-isolating the structure of consciousness

Question 4

Emergence of psychology as a science?

Answer 4

1900s - behaviourists
1950s - cognitive
1980s - biological

Question 5

What is the evaluation of Wundt research?

Answer 5

-scientific: methods were scientific and well-controlled as all self-observations were recorded in a lab ensuring there was no extraneous variables.
-subjective data: 1 limitation is it we be unscientific in today as it was subjective and self-reporting so participants may not have been truthful