APPROACHES

Question 1

Introspection definition

Answer 1

Systematic attempt to study mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts images + sensations

Question 2

WUNDT + INTROSPECTION - SCIENTIFIC

Answer 2

Controlled environment, carefully standardised

Question 3

WUNDT + INTROSPECTION- SUBJECTIVE

Answer 3

General laws not possible as all introspections are different

Question 4

EMERGENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE - MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

Answer 4

Learning, cognitive + biological approaches all use scientific methods eg. Lab research

Question 5

EMERGENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE - SUBJECTIVE DATA

Answer 5

Humanistic (reject scientific approach) + psychodynamic approaches rely on unscientific case studies. Research hampered by demand ch.

Question 6

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH - WELL CONTROLLED RESEARCH

Answer 6

Behaviour broken down to stimulus-response units helps remove extraneous variables
—- reducing behaviour in this way removes important influences of bah (eg thought)

Question 7

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH - RWA

Answer 7

Token economy system used in prisons + psychiatric institutions (cc =treatment of phobias)

Question 8

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH - ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

Answer 8

All beh is influenced by past experience so no room for free will (skinner says free will = illusion)

Question 9

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH - ETHICAL ISSUES

Answer 9

Controlled conditions important for research but not good for animals (kept hungry)

Question 10

Freuds psychosexual stages

Answer 10

oral (0-1)
anal (1-3)
phallic (3-6)
latency
genital

Question 11

definitions of the defence mechanisms

Answer 11

repression - fo