Origins

Question 1

What did Wundt do

Answer 1

Move psychology away from philosophical roots and into more controlled research

Question 2

What was wundts approach

Answer 2

Structuralism study the structure of the human mind by breaking down experiences into basic elements

Question 3

Introspection

Answer 3

• Systemic analysis of one own conscious experiences of a stimulus
• objective way of studying unobservable mental processes

Eg individual who has undergone training in how to introspect would reflect on their own cognitive processes perhaps by performing a task and then reporting on the experience

Question 4

How does an individual report on n experience

Answer 4

Reflect on sensation, feeling and images in a systematic way, breaking an experience into separate cognitive processes

Question 5

Weaknesses

Answer 5

• Introspective data was subjective despite Wundt’s attempts to make it systematic and objective, experimental results where not reliably reproduced by other researchers became hard to establish general principals
• ppts unable to comment on unconscious factors relating to their behaviour

Question 6

Strengths

Answer 6

Still sometime used to gain access to cognitive processes

Question 7

Emergence of psychology as a science - 2 major assumptions

Answer 7

• all behaviour seen as being caused (determined)
• if behaviour seen as determined then t should be possible to predict how human beings would behaviour in different conditions (predictability)

Known as scientific methods

Question 8

Scientific methods

Answer 8

Use of investigative methods that are objective systemic and replicable