approaches

• who first called himself a psychologist

  Wundt
• what did Wundt believe


  believed that all aspects of nature including the human mind could be studied scientifically
• when was the lab opened

  in 1879
• what did Wundt study in the lab


  he studies those aspects of behaviour that could only be strictly controlled under experimentally controlled
• introspection 


  the examination of ones own thought processes, feelings and emotions. its used as a form of self examination to record their thoughts to break down their responces and reactions
• what was wundts aim

  to structure the mind and he believed the only way to do this was to use experimental methods to break down the structure of the mind
• AO3- strengths of introspection 


  high internal validty because the high levels of control in scientific research allows researchers to manipulate the independant variable to see the affect of dependant variable
• AO3 strength of introspection


  influenced further approaches leading to psychology becoming its own disipline
• AO3- limitationwith introspection

  issues with reliability as when it has been repeated using the same control variables no similar findings have been found
• AO3 limitation of introspection


  much of psychology is unobservable proven by Nisbett and Wilson suggesting we have very little awareness of internal processing factors that are influential to us
• social learning theory

  views behaviour as being learnt from observation of role models
• identification

  to identify a model who would have a similar outcome to themselves
• imitation

  to copy the role model
• modelling

  observe the role models behaviour
• what are the 4 mediational processes

  attention, retention, motor reproduction and motivation
• vicarious reinforcement

  model observed receiving a reward for their behaviour so is more likely to be copied for a similar reward