Origins Of Psychology

Question 1

Who is Wundt?

Answer 1

He was the first person to open an experimental lab for psychology

Question 2

When was the first experimental psychology lab opened and by who?

Answer 2

In 1879 by Wundt

Question 3

Why was Wundt work significant for the field of psychology?

Answer 3

Because it marked the starting of psychology as a science whilst taking it away from its broader philosophical roots

Question 4

What was Wundts aim?

Answer 4

His aim was to try analyse the nature of human consciousness and study the human mind under controlled conditions

Question 5

What was Wundts known method known as?

Answer 5

Introspection

Question 6

What is introspection?

Answer 6

Introspection is the first systematical experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts images and sensations.

Question 7

What did psychology transition from and to?

Answer 7

It transitioned from experimental philosophy into a discipline of science

Question 8

What was one of Wundts main objectives?

Answer 8

To try & develop theories about mental process such as language and perception.

Question 9

what was the standardised procedure?

Answer 9

Him and his coworkers would set up some sort of stimuli ( such as different objects and sounds) and then record their observations to that stimuli but in different categories. It was the same everything to each participant

Question 10

How many categories were the observations divided into and what are those categories?

Answer 10

3 categories and they were: thoughts , images and sensations

Question 11

What is structuralism?

Answer 11

It is when the structure of consciousness is isolated and broken down into 3 categories

Question 12

Give an example as to how Wundt practiced standardisation?

Answer 12

The stimuli that Wundt and his coworkers experienced was always presented in the same order and the same instructions were issued to all participants.

Question 13

What is science?

Answer 13

Building knowledge through systematic and objective(unbiased) investigations. The aim is discover general laws.

Question 14

What is behaviourism?

Answer 14

Behaviourism is the theory that all behaviour is learnt from surroundings and the interaction with the environment. Behaviour is simply a response to an environmental stimuli

Question 15

When was introspection questioned and by who?

Answer 15

Introspection was question in 1900’s in the early 20th century by John B Watson.

Question 16

What was the problem with introspection?

Answer 16

It produced subjective data rather than objective so it was hard to establish general laws.

Question 17

Who was the other behaviourist other than Watson?

Answer 17

B.F.skinner

Question 18

What did they both say “ scientific” psychology should be?

Answer 18

That it should only study phenomena that can be observed objectively and measured

Question 19

How long did the behaviourist approach dominate scientific psychology?

Answer 19

50 years

Question 20

Why are Wundt’s experiments good?

Answer 20

Because they were scientific, with controlled and standardised instructions and it was a forerunner to later scientific researches

Question 21

What was a negative about Wundts experiments?

Answer 21

Some aspects weren’t scientific for eg. Subjective data