Origins of Psychology

• What 2 things did Wihelm Wundt come up with that contributed to psychology?

  • introspection and Reductionism
• Where was the first psychology lab?

  Leipzig, Germany
• Who created the first psychology lab? and when?

  Wihelm Wundt, 1879
• What is introspection?


  Observing someone's mental processes through self-reporting.
• What is Reductionism?

  Where complex things can be explained in terms of smaller and simpler parts.
• Wihelm Wundt believed he could use reductionism when referring to the mind.
• What was the strength of Wundt's discoveries?


  Establishing psychology as a separate scientific discipline.

  Being the first to apply the scientific method to psychology! He used standardisation to control extraneous variables and his studies were all replicable
• What is a limitation of Wundt's discoveries?

  His results weren't based on empirical evidence meaning his results neer produced consistent results (lacking reliability)