origins of psych

• wundt - father of psychology
• wundt - opened the first psychology lab - used a structionsit and reductionist approach
• introspection - looking into your own mind and analysing your own thoughts and feelings
• issues with introspection - doesn't explain how the mind works
• issues with introspection - not reliable due to self report
• wundt believed in reductionsim - reducing larger components into smaller areas to make it easier to study
• controversy around if psychology is a true science
• features of a science - objectivity - control - predictability - hypothesis testing - replication
• for psych as a science - allport - psych has same aims of a science
• against - some approaches are subjective and use unreliable methods
• science def - finding things out systematically and objectivly using observation and experimentation
• psychology def - the scientific study of the mind and behaviour
• systematic - working according to a standardised plan
• objectivity - not influenced by personal feelings just considers the facts
• empiricisms - based on tested experimentation
• scientific methodology - systematic observation measurement and experiment
• replicable - finding the same results
• predictable - geneal laws about human behaviour
• determinism - don't have a choice over behaviour
• inferences - guess of conclusion about behaviour based on repeated responses to a stimulus
• wundt method - used a metronome and asked participants to recall thoughts
• wundts research was systematic - same stimulus - suroundings - instructions given toe ach person - participants highly trained to introspect
• structualism - breaking the thoughts of each participant down into seperate elements
• pro wundt - paved the way for the scientific approach
• crit wundt - cant study internal mental proceses objectivly