Wundt and introspection Flashcards

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What is wundt considered as ?

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the founding father of psychology

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what is introspection ?

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  • a way if studying conscious mental processes
  • a process of self-examination
  • a systematic analysis of ones own conscious experience of standard stimuli
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strength of wundts introspection …

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controlled - the stimuli were the same each time, such as a metronome
the same STANDARDISED instructions were given to each PP
and this allowed the research to be replicated
marked the scientific controlled aspect of psychology

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weaknesses of wundts introspection …

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  1. unscientific today
    relied on self reports
    social desirability bias
    not meet the requirements of scientific credibility
  2. subjective interpretation of introspection
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what was wundts experiment ?

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ask participants to write all their conscious thoughts and introduce stimuli to people e.g foot tapping to see if it affected their conscious thoughts

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why did wundt help the development of psychology as a science ?

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set up first lab in germany

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WHAT WAS WUNDTS AIM?

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to break consciousness down into its constitute parts to uncover the mind, this method is named structuralism

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EXPLAIN TIMELEINE OR DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES

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WUNDT - INTROSPECTION - 1879
FREUD - 1900S
BEHAVIOURISM - WATSON AND SKINNER - 1913
HUMANISM - 1950S
COGNITIVE - 1960S
SLT - BANDURA - 1960S
BIOLOGICAL - 1980S
NEUROSCIENCE - 21ST CENTURY

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when was wundt

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1879

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what was wundts main stimulus

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a metronome

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what was consciousness broken down to

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sensations. emotions, mental images

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WUNDT SUMMARY AO1

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  • wundt was the founding father of psychology - moving psychology from its philosophical roots to scientific
  • he set up the first lab in 1870s
  • promoted introspection
  • a way of studying conscious mental processes by self-examination
  • a stimulus (metronome would be added)
  • consciousness was broken doen into many eleemnts and P.P had to reprot their expeirence of these
  • this systematic break down is called structuralism
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why would behaviourists critique introspection

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because they believed we can only study what can be directly observed we cannot understand the private operations of the mind it requires too much subjectivity and unscientific reasoning

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