Origins Of Psychology Flashcards

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Wundt’s contribution to psychology

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-one of the first to argue that you can use scientific methods to study human thinking
-his study helped separate psychology from philosophy.
HOWEVER
- introspection was unreliable
- mental processes happen automatically and we are unaware of how we do them.

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What is introspection

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Trying to analyse how the mind works by asking people to think carefully about how they do Mental processes such as focusing on one voice out of all voices in a noisy room

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What did Wundt do?

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  • he was one of the founding fathers of psychology.
  • Created the first psychology lab in 1875
  • he aimed to study mental processes systematically
  • he carried out introspection
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