origins + emergence

• birth of psychology - who and when?

  wundt 1879
• what did wundt suggest

  that the human mind can be studied scientifically
• where was wundts first psychology lab


  leipzig germany
• timeline of psychology

  1870s - Wundt introspection

  1900s - Freud psychodynamic approach

  1920-30s - behaviourism

  1950s - humanism

  1960s - cognitive and social psychology

  1980s - biological approach

  2000s - cognitive neuroscience

  wundt freud being happy social cunts because cats
• introspection meaning

  examining ones own mental activity and breaking down conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts and sensation = structuralism
• introspection method

  recorded under strict, controlled conditions:

  • same surroundings
  • same stimulus
  • same verbal instructions
  • emphasis on measurement
• what did wundt originally believe?

  that all aspects of human experiences could be studied like this but later realised that higher mental processes (emotion) cannot
• introspection wundt AO3 - unreliable method

  -individual differences = different results (even people trained in introspection would give different responses to the same stimulus)

  
  

  :( behaviourists already getting reliable and replicable results that can be generalised to humans
• introspection wundt AO3 - kids + animals?

  -kids have limited vocabulary and articulation ability

  -animals thoughts cant be studied

  :( behaviourists only focus on observable behaviour so they have the upper hand
• introspection wundt AO3 - subjective

  -only the individual can report their own mental processes

  -complex topics like mental disorders/personality cant be studied
• introspection wundt AO3- other studies

  -people use it alongside more scientific methods to investigate thought processes (griffiths gambling study)
• what is science?

  the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
• falsifiability?


  must have the ability to prove it wrong
• objectivity?


  must be observable, factual and unbiased
• replicability?


  the ability to replicate and find the same results
• why is the scientific method good?

  -can separate fact from opinion

  -can establish cause and effect

  -provides support for theories, can replicate