Origins of psychology
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- Who is often seen as the first person to make psychology scientific?
- What did Wundt believe about the human mind?
- When did Wundt set up the first psychological laboratory?
- Where was Wundt's laboratory located?
- What aspects of behavior did Wundt study?
- What was Wundt's approach to studying the human mind called?
- What technique did Wundt use for his studies?
- What does introspection involve?
- How did Wundt encourage participants to engage in introspection?
- Why was introspection considered scientific?
- What did Wundt issue to all participants during introspection?
- What criticism did behaviorists have about Wundt's approach?
- What is a weakness of Wundt's introspection method?
- Why could Wundt not establish general theories?
- Who achieved reliably reproducible results before Wundt?
- How has introspection been used in modern research?
- What method did Hunter (2003) use to study happiness?
- What did Hunter's findings reveal about teenagers' happiness?
- What challenge do psychologists face regarding introspection?
- What do empiricists believe about knowledge?
- What assumptions underlie the scientific approach to psychology?
- What does the scientific method in psychology emphasize?
- What do behaviorists focus on in psychology?
- What are the four characteristics of the scientific method?
- How did cognitive psychology emerge in the 1950s?
- How do cognitive psychologists study mental processes?
- What has the biological approach contributed to psychology?
- What is a strength of modern psychology?
- What do the learning approaches in psychology aim to do?
- What is a limitation of the nomothetic approach in psychology?
- What is a limitation of subjective data in psychology?
- What positive view does the Humanistic approach take?
- How have Wundt's methods influenced cognitive psychology?
- What have lab studies contributed to psychology?