origins of psych

Cards (11)

    • what is proposed empiricism? 

    all knowledge is derived from sensory experiences
  • who is wundt?

    father of psychology
  • where was his lab?
    leipzig germany
  • what was he interested in?
    conscious experience and structuralism
  • what is introspection 

    examines the mental processes by noting down our conscious thoughts and feelings in response to a stimulus
  • how are introspections recorded?

    in a standardised procedure
  • what is a strength of wundts methods 

    scientific and standardised
  • what are weaknesses of wundts methods 

    unscientific and data is subjective
  • what is empiricism 

    all knowledge is derived from all senses
  • what is a strength of the emergence of psychology 

    scientific
  • what is one weakness of the emergence of psychology 

    not all approaches use objective methods