Origins

Question 1

What happened from the 17th - the 19th century (involving psychology)

Answer 1

Psychology branched off from philosophy, the start of psychology.

Question 2

What happened in 1879 (involving psychology)

Answer 2

Finally psychology becomes distinct and as such Wilham waunt opens the first psychology lab in Germany

Question 3

Who made the psychodynamic approach? (1900)

Answer 3

Freud establishes the psychodynamic approach which emphasises the influence of the unconscious mind on behaviour.

Question 4

What two people established the behaviourist approach 1913

Answer 4

J.B Watson and B. Skinner

Question 5

In 1950 who established the humanistic approach and what does it high light

Answer 5

C.Rogers and A.Maslow highlights free will

Question 6

What is the Cognitive approach 1960

Answer 6

With the advance of computers the focus is to renewed for mental pro

Question 7

What is Social learning theory 1960

Answer 7

Bandaranaike proposed the social learning theory which bridges the behaviourist approach with the cognitive approach.

Question 8

Biological approach

Answer 8

With the increase of technology our understanding of the functioning of the brain and other psychology processes this gives rise to the biological approach

Question 9

What has happened 2000 onwards

Answer 9

Cognitive neuroscience = cognitive + biological

Question 10

What is introspection

Answer 10

It’s exactly mean “Introspection comes from Latin and means ‘looking into’”

Question 11

Wundt’s approach-structuralism

Answer 11

isolating the structure of consciousness, using scientific methods studying the structure of sensation and perception.

Question 12

An exsample of how introspection has helped psychology hint gambling

Answer 12

Griffiths (1994) used introspection to study the cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers.

Question 13

What are some strengths of psychology

Answer 13

Knowledge acquired using
scientific methods are more than just the passive acceptance of facts

Causes of behaviour can be established through the use of methods that are empirical and replicable

Scientific knowledge is self-corrective meaning that it can be refined or abandoned (theories and hypothesis)

Question 14

What are some weaknesses of psychology

Answer 14

Scientific psychologists create contrived situations that create artificial behaviours

Much of the subject matter of psychology is unobservable, therefore cannot be measured with any degree of accuracy

Not all psychologists share the view that that human behaviour can be explored through scientific methods