approaches: the development of psychology

Question 1

who is wundt?

Answer 1

founded institute of experimental psychology, published first book on psychology which helped establish it as an independent branch of science, he was involved in development of the field of cultural psychology based on general trends in behaviour

Question 2

what was wundts approach?

Answer 2

structuralist: study of human mind, not focusing on philosophy. he broke down behaviours into perception, sensation into basic elements

Question 3

what did wundt study the human mind through?

Answer 3

introspection: analysing own thoughts and feelings internally- used to study sensation and perception by asking pts to describe experiences when presented with stimuli, and reaction times were recorded

Question 4

higher mental processes?

Answer 4

learning, language, emotions

Question 5

weaknesses?

Answer 5

• difficult to objectively study unobservable matter- memory is impossible to observe,
• introspective methods were not reliably reproduced
• earlier psychologists such as pavlov had more reliable findings that were generalisable

Question 6

strengths?

Answer 6

• wundts research is used in modern scientific research: csikzentmihalyi and hunter- used introspective methods as measuring a way of happiness, gave teens beepers that went of during day and had to write down thoughts.