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Approaches in Pyschology
Origins of Psychology
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Introspection
First
systematic
experimental attempt to study mind
Psychology
Study of
mind
and behaviour
Science
Getting knowledge through systematic and objective
investigations
When did
Wundt
open his lab?
1879
Where did
Wundt
open his lab?
Leipzig
Germany
What was
Wundt's
aim?
Analyse nature of human
consciousness
under controlled conditions.
What did
Wundt's
pioneering method became known as?
Introspection
What was
Wundt's
main objective?
Try and develop
theories
about mental processes such as language and perception.
What were the three
categories
Wundt
and his co-workers would divide their observation in?
Thoughts, images and
sensations
What is one stimuli
Wundt
would use to gain insight into participants mental processes?
Ticking
mentronome
What was
Psychology
a branch of?
Philosophy
What was the problem with
introspection
?
Produced
subjective data
rather than
objective
so it was very difficult to
establish
general laws
What did
Watson
and
B.F Skinner
propose?
A truly scientific psychology should only study phenomena that can be observed
objectively
and measured
Behaviourists
Value of
introspection
being questioned
Introspection produced subjective data
Watson
and
B.F. Skinner
Proposed that a truly scientific psychology should only study phenomena that can be observed objectively and measured
1950s
Cognitive Approach
Digital revolution of 1950s gave a new generation of psychologists a metaphor for studying the mind
Cognitive psychologists likened the mind to a
computer
Tested their
predictions
about memory and attention using experiments
1980s
Biological approaches
To investigate physiological processes as they happen
The use of sophisticated scanning techniques such as
fMRI
and
EEG
to study live activity in the brain