Origins Of Psychology

Question 1

Introspection

Answer 1

Studying the mind by breaking up consciousness into basic structures of thoughts, image and sensations

Question 2

Psychology

Answer 2

The scientific study of the mind, behaviour and experience

Question 3

Science

Answer 3

A means of acquiring knowledge through systematic and objective investigation. The aim is to discover general laws

Question 4

Who opened the first psychology lab?

Answer 4

Wilhelm Wundt in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany

Question 5

Structuralism

Answer 5

The structured method of studying the conscious

Question 6

Why is Wundt’s Work significant

Answer 6

It marks the beginning of psychology as a science

Question 7

How did Wundt use structuralism?

Answer 7

The stimuli used with Wundt’s investigation participants was always the same, presented in the same order and they were given the same instructions

Question 8

What was Wundt’s aim in his investigations

Answer 8

To study theories about mental processes, e.g. language and perception

Question 9

17th - 19th century

Answer 9

• psychology is a branch of philosophy

- experimental psychology

Question 10

1879

Answer 10

Wilhelm Wundt opens the first psychology lab, marking the beginning of psychology as a science

Question 11

1900s

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Sigmund Freud focuses on the unconscious mind and the psychodynamic approach

Question 12

1910s

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B.F. Skinner develops the behaviouristic approach

Question 13

1950s

Answer 13

• Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow develop the humanistic approach
• the cognitive approach focuses on the study of mental processes, but more scientific than Wundt’s previous investigations

Question 14

1980s

Answer 14

The biological approach becomes the main scientific perception of psychology

Question 15

21st century

Answer 15

cognitive neuroscience brings together the cognitive and biological approaches