Origins of Psychology

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)

Answer 1

• First to call himself a psychologist
• Believed human mind can be explained by science
• Leipzig 1870 - studied controlled factors of behaviour in his lab
• Introspection - looking within

Question 2

William James (1842-1910)

Answer 2

• Disagreed with Wundt
• Thought basic parts of brain irrelevant
• What mattered were functions of thoughts and behaviours

Question 3

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Answer 3

• Dream analysis
• Hypnotism
• ‘The couch’
• Psychosexual stages

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

• The Scientific Method
• Everyhting has a cause - determinism
• If we know the cause, we can predict/control behaviour