approaches

• what did wilhelm wundt do ?

  • in 1879 he founded the first lab for experimental psychological research in leipzig Germany
• what is introspection ?


  The act of looking inwards to examine one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings
• why is wundts work significant ?

  Marked the beginning of scientific psychology, separating it from its broader philosophical roots
• what occurred in psychology in the early 1950s ?


  Rogers and Maslow develop the humanistic approach - the ‘third force’ in psychology which rejects the psychodynamic and behaviourist idea that behaviour is determined by outside factors, emphasising the importance of self-determination and free will
• what happened in the 1960s ?


  Bandura proposed the social learning theory which draws attention to the role of cognitive factors in learning, providing a bridge between the newly established cognitive approach and traditional behaviourism
• what happened in the 1980s ?


  The biological approach becomes the dominant scientific perspective due to advances in technology that have increased understanding of the brain and biological processes
• What was his systematic attempt to study the mind under controlled conditions called?

  introspection
• what was wundts aim ?

  to try and analyse the nature of human consciousness
• what was wundts method of investigating mental processes ?

  Him and his co-workers recorded their experiences of various stimuli they were presented with such as different objects or sounds are divided their observations into thoughts, images and sensations
• how were wundts procedures standardised?

  The stimuli were always in the same order and the same instructions issues to all participants
• what is isolating the structure of consciousness called ?

  structuralism