5.1: Wundt

Question 1

Discuss Wundt’s role in the emergence of psychology as a science (3 marks)

Answer 1

Wundt was the first to open a laboratory designated to the scientific study of psychological enquiry under controlled conditions, facilitating accurate measurements and replication

Question 2

Discuss Wundt’s role in the emergence of psychology as a science (3 marks).
Wundt was the first to open a laboratory designated to the scientific study of psychological enquiry under controlled conditions, facilitating accurate measurements and replication.
What was the focus on?

Answer 2

The focus was on trying to understand psychological processes and structuralism, rather than philosophical or biological processes

Question 3

Discuss Wundt’s role in the emergence of psychology as a science (3 marks).
Wundt was the first to open a laboratory designated to the scientific study of psychological enquiry under controlled conditions, facilitating accurate measurements and replication.
The focus was on trying to understand psychological processes and structuralism, rather than philosophical or biological processes.
What did Wundt later recognise?

Answer 3

Wundt later recognised that higher mental processes were difficult to study using his procedures

Question 4

Discuss Wundt’s role in the emergence of psychology as a science (3 marks).
Wundt was the first to open a laboratory designated to the scientific study of psychological enquiry under controlled conditions, facilitating accurate measurements and replication.
The focus was on trying to understand psychological processes and structuralism, rather than philosophical or biological processes.
Wundt later recognised that higher mental processes were difficult to study using his procedures and what did this do?

Answer 4

Wundt later recognised that higher mental processes were difficult to study using his procedures and this encouraged others to look for more appropriate methods and techniques

Question 5

Discuss Wundt’s role in the emergence of psychology as a science (3 marks).
Wundt was the first to open a laboratory designated to the scientific study of psychological enquiry under controlled conditions, facilitating accurate measurements and replication.
The focus was on trying to understand psychological processes and structuralism, rather than philosophical or biological processes.
Wundt later recognised that higher mental processes were difficult to study using his procedures and this encouraged others to look for more appropriate methods and techniques, paving the way for what?

Answer 5

Wundt later recognised that higher mental processes were difficult to study using his procedures and this encouraged others to look for more appropriate methods and techniques, paving the way for approaches such as scanning