Wundt and the origins of Psychology Flashcards

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What feature of a science outlines the idea of forming theories and creating a prediction in order to test this

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Forming a testable hypothesis

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What feature of a science outlines the idea of maintaining high controls to help establish cause and effect

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High internal validity

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What feature of a science outlines the idea of replication of results and consistency of findings

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Reliability

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What feature of a science outlines the idea of creating factual evidence rather than thoughts and opinions

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Objectivity

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Where was the first lab that was dedicated to Psychology, located?

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Leipzig, Germany

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Did Wundt publish books and articles detailing his findings?

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Yes

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what was Wundt’s theory called? this theory outlined the need to break down conscious experience

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Structuralism

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Wundt created a method that helped break down conscious experience, what was this called?

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Introspection

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If i was to make a decision on what someone may be thinking based on their observed behaviour, this would be a?

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Inference

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A common stimulus that Wundt used during introspection was?

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A metronome

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Introspection took place in controlled conditions to help increase?

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internal validity

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Wundt was criticised because his method was seen as too?

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Subjective

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