Origins Flashcards
What is the meaning of psychology?
The scientific study of the mind and it’s functions affecting behaviour.
What is Cartesian dualism?
The idea that the mind and body are independant from eachother (rene descartes)
What does empiricism mean?
Where all experiences can be obtained through the senses (sight, smell etc)
What does ‘Tabula Rasa’ mean?
Blank slate (born=no knowledge)
What is evolution?
The process of passing traits from one individual to the next (offspring) through adaptive genes
What does the term survival of the fittest suggest?
Individuals with genes that ‘fit’ in with the environment in a beneficial way to survive and pass on genes
An approach means a different ________ from which to study a topic
Perspective
Who is the father of psychology?
Wundt
Wundt switched from philosophical roots to ________ __________ research
Controlled, objective
Wundt aim was to study the _________ of the mind by _________ down behaviours such as ___________ and sensation into their basic elements (___________)
Structure, breaking, perception, structuralism
What does introspection mean?
To look within oneself
What was the procedure for Wundts study?
Pps in a room with a stimuli (candle ex1) , a pen and some paper.
Pps asked to self-report experience and internal feelings
What strengths are their in the Wundts study?
Controlled methods
Objective
Can be repeated every time
What are the weaknesses of Wundts study?
Little knowledge of causes
Data is subjective
Difficult to establish general principles
Results were not reliably reproducible by other researchers in other laboratory
What does objective mean?
It is being unbiased, definitive and having no any emotion
