Origins Of Psychology ✅ Flashcards
What is a paradigm?
A way of thinking that is accepted by all.
What is the anecdote for the requirements for psychology to be a science?
Flying, Harry P O T E R
Label all the conditions for something to be considered a science?
Falsifiable, hypothesis, paradigm, objective, theory, empirical, replicable
What requirements did wvunt meet for psychology to be considered a science?
Theory - he could study peoples conscious awareness
Empirical - introspection
Replicable - introspection
What did wunt not have?
A paradigm
What did Wundt do and why was this significant?
Opened the first psychology lab, distinguished psychology away from being experimental philosophy
Wat did Wundt want to do?
Explore human mind (thoughts,feelings) under lab conditions.
What effected introspection?
Extraneous variables, and socially desirable responses
What is the empirical evidence for introspection?
1994 mark griffins - used introspection to study cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers.
- group of both gamblers and non.
- gamblers identified the machine as if it was human.
What did mark suggest about his experiment on the gamblers?
That their pattern of thoughts are different.
What is introspection?
Examination of ones own mental and emotional processes.
Positive about introspection?
Introspection is still used widely today to in therapy (CBT) to challenge and change the way people think.
