Origins of Psychology

• Who published the first psychology book

  Wilhelm Wundt
• what was Wundt's 2 assumptions to scientific approach


  all behaviour is caused. if behavior is determined its also predictable
• What are the 3 scientific methods to investigation


  objective: free of bias replicable: should be reproducible falsifiable: theory must be disproved to be scientific
• what are the 4 goals of Psychology


  description: tells us what occurred explanation: why a behaviour process occurred prediction: identifies conditions under which a future behaviour is to occur Change: applies Psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted behaviour
• what does introspection mean


  looking into
• What did Wundt get his participants to do


  reflect on their own thought or feelings and to describe them
• what are strengths of introspection


  produced reliably reproducible results
• what are the limitations of introspection


  relies on non-observable responses, produced subjective data making it difficult to establish principles
• what are strengths of the scientific approach to psychology


  knowledge gained with science , causes of behaviour found through replicable methods
• what are the limitations of the scientific approach to psychology


  artificial behaviours created, subject matter unobservable and cant be measured