WUNDT

• Wundt helped psychology to emerge as a science
• what did Wundt study

  the structure of the mind

  aspects of behaviour that can be controlled in a lab
• what technique did Wundt use to study the mind


  introspection
• what is introspection


  gaining knowledge about mental states as a result of observing own conscious thoughts and feeling
• empiricism


  all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
• scientific method


  methods of investigating that are objective,systematic and replicable
• AO3 WUNDTS METHODS AS UNRELIABLE


  -relied on non-observable behaviours

  -lack of reliability of methods

  -methods were not replicable by other researchers in other labs
• AO3 A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TESTS ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR


  -reliance on objective and systematic methods

  -knowledge acquired is more than just acceptance

  -establish causes of behaviour through empirical and replicable methods

  -its self corrective however
• AO3 SCIENTIFIC APPROACH NOT ALWAYS APPROPRIATE


  -not all psychologists believe that behaviour can be scientifically measured

  -unobservable,therefore cannot be measured with a degree of accuracy

  -its inferential
• AO3 INTROSPECTION IS NOT ACCURATE


  -Nibbet claim that we have little knowledge of casues of our behaviours

  -acute in the study of implict attitudes such as racism

  -exist outside consciousness,person will not uncover through introspection
• AO3 INTROSPECTION IS STILL USEFUL TODAY


  -Hunter used to measure happiness

  -beepers that went off at different times

  -helps understand more clearly momentary conditions that affect happiness and may help improve quality of life