The origins of psychology

Question 1

What was wundts work?

Answer 1

• Wundt worked on the beginning of scientific psychology and developed introspection where he aimed to analyse human consciousness and study the mind

Question 2

What were wundts procedures

Answer 2

• Wundt and his co workers recorded their expierence with stimuli and divided them into thoughts, images and sensations
• this is called structuralism

Question 3

Evaluate introspection

Answer 3

s = well controlled and scientific, standardised and in a lab
L = relied on subjective data of self reporting mental processes

Question 4

How has psychology emerged as a science

Answer 4

• 1900 = behaviourists rejected intospection and proposed that psychology should be measured objectively
• 1950 = cognitive, likening the mind to a computer
• 1980 = biological approach, use of biology to understand psychology

Question 5

Evaluate psych as a science

Answer 5

S = scientific, most approaches rely on objective data such as the biological and behaviourist approach
L = the humanistic and psychodynamic approach reject scientific approaches, showing that some approaches may disagree with science and it may not always be desirable