4.2.1 Approaches In Psychology

• Wundt founded the first psychology laboratory in 1879
• introspection is looking inward and examining ones thoughts, emotions and sensations
• Wundt found that reports were highly subjective ad varied from person to person, which meant they were unreliable
• strengths of Wundt was that he was scientific, controlling the environment were he conducted his introspection experiments preventing extraneous variables
• strengths of Wundt was that he was influential to the cognitive approach to psychology
• weakness of Wundt was that he was unscientific - he was unable to replicate his findings so he was unreliable and unscientific
• learning approaches measure and explain human behaviour as a product of environment and experience
• the behaviourist approach to psychology explains human behaviour as a result of learning from experience, such as via classical and operant conditioning
• behaviourist approach assumes that the mind is a blank slate and behaviour is learnt from environment and experience
• classical conditioning is a key principle of behaviourism. It explains how behaviours are learned from experience via association
• Pavlov 1927 dog salavate