APPROACHES - ORIGINS

Question 1

What is Psychology?

Answer 1

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes and how those are affected by internal and external factors.

Question 2

What is Empiricism?

Answer 2

The belief that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience. It is generally characterised by the use of the scientific method in psychology.

Question 3

What is the scientific method?

Answer 3

Refers to the used of investigative methods that are systematic, replicable and objective, and the formulation, testing and modification of hypotheses based on these methods.

Question 4

Define Introspection.

Answer 4

The process by which a person gains knowledge about their own mental and emotional states as the result of examination or observation of conscious thoughts and feelings.

Question 5

Describe the emergence of psychology as a science

Answer 5

Before Wundt, the study of the mind + behaviour was limited to philosophy + medicine
^— he was the first to use controlled empirical scientific research techniques to study teh mind
- Wundt’s use of scientific methods helped establish psychology as an independent field of scientific research