origins

• who opened the first psychology lab?

  wilheim wundt
• what year was the first psychology lab opened?

  1879
• what was wundt's approach to studying psychology?

  to study the structure of the mind/brain
• what are the two steps of the scientific method?

  1. all behaviour is seen as being caused (determined)
  2. if behaviour is determined then it can be predicted
• what are the three investigative methods?

  objective, systematic, replicable
• introspection...


  is the observation of one's own mental/emotional processes
• what does introspection rely on?

  non-observable responses - although participants can report on conscious experiences, they cannot comment on unconscious factors that affect their behaviour
• what does introspection produce?

  subjective data - difficult to establish general principles, meaning that results may not be reliably reproduced by other researchers
• subjective data...

  data varies from person to person
• griffiths (1994)...

  used introspection to study the cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers

  he asked them to "think aloud" when gambling with a microphone attached to them
• csikzentmilyi + hunter (2003)...

  used introspection to study happiness in their work in the area of positive psychology