origins in psychology Flashcards
give 5 facts about wihelm wundt
- first person calls himself a psychologist
- published a book in psychology about principles of psychology
-opened the first psychology labatory in Germany
-founding father psychology
-helped pave the way of scientific psychology
what was wudnts aim in his study
his aim was to study the structure of the human mind he did this by breaking down behaviour by sensation and perception he did this by structuralism and a technique of introspection
structuralism
breaking down the behaviours in their basic element
introspection
person gains knowledge about their own mental state
what was wundts claim with introspection
his claim with sufficent training is that memory could be studied systematically as they use introspection
wundts contribution to the emergence of psychology as a science
he established psychology as a science using the scientific method known as empiricism
true or false empirical method was applied to wundt studys
true
empiricism
believed knowledge is deprieved from a sensory experience it is characterised by the use of the scientific method in psychology
scientific method
it refers to the use of methods that are objective, systematic and replicable
objective
dont let bias or idea influence data
systematic
observations of experiments are carried out in an orderly way
replicable
observations repeated by other researches
evaluation- wundts method was unreliable
-behaviourists said his structuralist approach relied on non observable responses
-wuntds approach required pps to report on their conscious experience which are unobservable
what part of wundts method was shown to be unreliable
-processes like memory and perception are impossible to observe
-shows wundts approach lacks reliability as his results have not been reproduced by others
evaluation- introspection is not accurate claimed by nisbett and wilson
-Nisbett and wilson claim is that we have little knowledge on introspection and the process that underlines our behaviour
-they found that pps were unaware of factors that influenced are choices