Theme 1a

Question 1

Why did psychology have to get rid of spirituality to become a science?

Answer 1

People were mixing the terms psychical and psychological. Psychology was often connected to religion, however, to become a science it had to get rid of all unfalsifiable beliefs.

Question 2

Who made the first psychological laboratory, when and where? What three strands of thinking did it combine?

Answer 2

It was Wilhelm Wundt, in Leipzig, in 1879. The three strands of thinking - developments from sensory physiology studying sensations, contributions from philosophy of mind which showed that higher mental processes could be studied, medical findings which showed that higher mental processes were linked to the brain.

Question 3

sensory physiology, Weber, Fechner

Question 4

associationist philosophy

Question 5

findings from neuroscience

Question 6

Wundt and his laboratory

Question 7

goals of psychology

Question 8

sensation and feelings

Question 9

association and apperception

Question 10

volkerpsychologie