Origins Of Psycology Flashcards
What was psychology considered from the 17th to 19th century?
A branch of philosophy
What opened in 1879?
Wandt opened the first psychology lab in Germany
What was studied in 1900?
Sigmond Freud focused his studies on the unconscious mind and behaviour with the psychodynamic approach.
What was established in 1913?
J.B Watson and B. Skinner established the behaviourist approach to psychology. They criticised Sigmund and Wundt arguing that only observable factors should be measured.
What approach was used in 1950?
C.Rogers and A.Maslow used the humanistic approach from the angle of free will and self determination
What was the human mind compared to in the 1960s?
The cognitive approach compared the human mind to a computer
What theory combined the behaviourist and cognitive approach in the 1960s?
Bondure used the social learning theory which combined to theories and had influence of cognitive factors
What developed in the 1980s?
More technology and further understanding of the brain gave rise to the biological approach
What began from 2000 onwards?
Cognitive neuroscience developed to bring both the cognitive and biological approach togeather
What did Wundt publish in 1873?
The principles of physiological psychology was published to establish psychology as its own science
What is Wundt considered?
The farther of psychology
What is meant by “introspection”?
Looking into one’s thoughts
5 issues with introspection…
Can be distorted if the person is deliberately thinking of certain thoughts
Not always repeatable as there will be different results each time
Some thoughts may be forgotten in the time between the thought and the discussion after
All results are subjective so general principles are hard to make
Hard to study unobservable matter
What does introspection rely on?
Non-observable responses
What did Griffiths use introspection to study in 1994
Cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers
