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What is psychology?

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the scientific study of the mind, it’s functions and how these affect our behaviour

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What is introspection?

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First experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures (thoughts/images)

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What is structuralism?

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studying the relationship amongst phenomena not just the phenomena themselves

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What is subjectivity?

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Opinion based judgment

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What is objectivity?

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Fact based judgement

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What is scientific?

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Repeatable, numerical data, lab experiments

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What is measurable?

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Quantifiable, observable, reliable

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What does applicable mean?

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Useful in society

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What are the strengths of Wundt?

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  • Focus on mental processes through introspection can be see as a starting point for the cognitive approach - a widely respected and scientific approach
  • introspection is still sometimes used in modern scientific psychological research
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