Wundt And Origins Flashcards
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Why is Wundt so significant and important
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Because he separated psychology from philosophy by analysing the working of the mind in a mono structured way
2
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What was Wundt main objective
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To document and describe the nature of human consciousness
3
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What is introspection
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The examination or observation of ones mental and emotional processes when conscious, a reaction to a stimulus
4
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What is structuralism
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Isolating the structures of such consciousness to examine in further detail
5
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Positive of Wundts methods
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Very scientific
- controlled
- all ps were given same standardised instructions
- same stimulus - metronome
6
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Negative if wundts
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Watson (behaviourist) argues that introspection produced data that was too subjected- as it varied from p to p .
-difficult to establish general principles
