origins

• who is the founder of experimental psychology?

  wundt
• outline wundt's work 💡

  • 1879 - first psychology lab
  • focused on empirical and scientific methods
  • structuralism
• define introspection 🧠

  examining one's own conscious thoughts and emotions
• procedure of introspection

  1. presented with a stimulus
  2. verbally report thoughts, images and sensations
  3. analysed reports to identify basic elements of consciousness
• how did wundt ensure scientific credibility? 🧪

  • standardised instructions
  • highly controlled lab setting
  • trained observers
• 1870

  wundt
• 1890

  freud created psychodynamics
• 1910

  pavlov & skinner created behaviourism
• 1950

  rogers & maslow created humanistic psychology
• 1960

  • bandura created behaviourism
  • cognitive approach
• 1980

  cognitive neuroscience
• ✅ strength of wundt - scientific

  beginning of psychology as a science

  • controlled lab experiments and standardised procedures
  • empiricism and measurable observation
  • foundation for modern experimental psychology
• ❌ limitation of wundt - objective

  introspection is subjective

  • relies on individuals reporting their own thoughts and feelings
  • replication is difficult
  • unscientific
• ✅ strength of wundt - influence

  influenced development of future approaches

  • cognitive approach investigates internal mental processes
  • later psychologists applied scientific rigour to wundt's ideas
  • significant influence
• is psychology a science?

  • ✅ - empirical methods
  • ✅ - tests hypotheses
  • ✅ - objectivity, replicability and falsifiability

  
  

  • ❌ - some areas are subjective
  • ❌ - human behaviour is complex and context-dependent