Wundt

• What are approaches?

  A way of looking at what psychology is
• what is an analogy ?

  what each approach s a pair of spectacles that changes how you look at psychology
• what did Wilhelm Wundt start?

  psychology as a science
• when and where did Wundt establish the first psychology laboratory ?

  1875

  Leipzig university
• what institute did Wundt found in 1879?

  experimentelle psychologie
• what was Wundts main method ?

  Introspection
• what is introspection?

  the explaination of one’s own thought processes
• how was introspection conducted ?

  in a controlled environment , the researchers would report back to Wundt about their experience and analysis of the experiment
• what was the aim of introspection ?

  to break down consciousness into elemental sensations feelings and emotions
• what did Wundt find out about introspection?

  these reports couldn’t be replicated and were therefore unreliable ( you cannot have the same conscious experience twice)

  the experience was too subjective
• what are some important factors of the emergence of psychology as a science?

  psychology today is a scientific disipline

  variety of research methods, most of which are empitical to investigate Human and animal behaviour

  many psychologists aim to be scientific and use hypothesis testing and scientific methods

  not all psychologists agree

  Wundt noted, there will always be subjectivity