origins of psychology

Question 1

what is psychology?

Answer 1

the scientific study of the human minds and its functions

Question 2

what are approaches

Answer 2

different approaches that psychologists have to how the explain, understand and investigate behaviour

Question 3

who is wilhelm wundt?

Answer 3

considered the father of experimental psychology
developed introspection

Question 4

what is introspection?

Answer 4

the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes

Question 5

how does introspection work?

Answer 5

pots are given a stimulus and they have to provide a description of what their inner processes are whilst listening to the sound or looking at the image + wundt compared responses

Question 6

what are the 3 major features needed for a subject to be considered a science

Answer 6

objectivity
replicability
empirical methods

Question 7

what is objectivity

Answer 7

basing findings on fact rather than opinion

Question 8

what is replicability

Answer 8

the ability to repeat a study and test the findings

Question 9

empirical methods

Answer 9

methods psychologists use where behaviours can be observed and measured

Question 10

why isn’t introspection considered scientific

Answer 10

it was subjective + produced data that wasn’t replicable + wasn’t measurable and isn’t based on empirical methods