Approaches in psychology-ORIGINS OF PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
who is the father of experimental psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
What did Wilhelm Wundt do in 1875?
Established the first psychology labatory
Where did Wundt work?
Leipzig university
What did Wundt find in 1879 and who with?
Institute for experimental psychology with Gustav Fechner
In 1879 what did discipline move from?
Realms of philosophy, biology and physiology into psychology
What did Wundt use in his work?
Introspection
Explain the meaning on Introspection
Examination of ones own throught processes
Wundt’s researchers were trained to examine their for feelings, emotions and sensations
Explain Wundt’s research into introspection
Researchers were trained to examine their feelings, emotions and sensations, in a controlled environment at Leipzig university.
They would report to Wundt what they had experienced and their analysis of their experience
What did Wundt discover from his experiment into introspection?
- Unreliable as future replications are not possible
- Subjective as it is based upon one persons onion/ viewpoint they would be lying (unreliable)
What is psychology today seen as?
Scientific discipline
What does psychology today use?
Variety of mythologies (e.g experiments and observations), many are empirical (scientific) to investigate human and animal behaviour
What does the legacy of biological and psychological origins mean?
Many psychologists apply the scientific methods to their work and use empirical methods to test their hypotheses
What are the approaches that use scientific methods?
Biological, behaviourist and cognitive
Why do some psychologists not focus on scientific aspects with their work?
They say that there will always be an element of subjectivity
That Wundt witnessed
What is a result from the varying viewpoints portrayed by psychologists as to whether psychology is a science?.
The differing methods used by psychologists test behaviour
Meaning that they consider behaviour through varying viewpoints
