Origins Of Psycholgy

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

• Opened first psychology lab in Leipzig 1879 and used it to study the human mind using introspection
• ‘Father of Experimental Psychology’

Question 2

Introspection

Answer 2

• literally means ‘looking into’
• done under strictly controlled conditions and used standardised equipment
• process of observing and examining your own conscious thoughts or emotions
• used a ticking metronome to get people to write down their conscious emotions

Question 3

Evaluating introspection

Answer 3

• Participants could write down socially desirable answers
• always be a delay between conscious thoughts and writing them down
• produces objective data (varied from person to person) so general principles could not be obtained

Question 4

3 scientific ways to investigate methods

Answer 4

Objective
Systematic
Replicable

Question 5

Strengths and weaknesses to the scientific approach to psychology

Answer 5

Strengths
-causes of behaviour can be explained through replicable and structured methods

Weaknesses

• psychologists create unnatural situations resulting in artificial behaviour
• much of subject matter is unobservable and therefore cannot be accurate

Question 6

Determinism

Answer 6

The idea that all events and behaviours have causes