origins of psychology
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- wundt's lab>>>- n 1879, Wilhelm Wundt opened the first ever lab dedicated to psychological enquiry in Leipzig Germany- this was significant because i maked the beginning of scientific psychology ( studying of the mind, behaviour and experience) and was separated from its philisophical roots- his aim was to study the nature of human consciousness. he did this with his method, intropsection- introspection~ the first systematic experimental attempt to study the mind be breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts, images and sensations
- standardised procedures>>>- his main objectives were to try and develop theories about mental processes e.g. language and perception- him and his co-worker recorded their experience with various stimuli e.g. objects and sounds- they'd divide their observations into 3 categories;- thoughts- images- sensations- e.g ppt might be given a ticking metronome and they would report this based of these categories
- structuralism>>>- structuralism occurred when isolating the structure of consciousness in this way. (in the 3 catergoreis)- the stimuli Wundt and his co-workers were experiencing were always presented in the same order and the same instructions were issued to all participants.
- ao3 scientific methods>>>- methods were systematic, objective and well-controlled- all introspection were recorded in the controlled lab experiment - so there's no extraneous variables- all procedures were standardisedm- so all ppts got same info and were tested in the same way
- ao3 subjective data>>>- wundt relied on ppt to self -report their mental processes - this is subjective because its influenced by personal perspective- ppts may have hidden some of their thoughts- difficult to establish meaningful 'laws of behaviour' from such data - which is useful to predict future behaviour ( one of the aims of science)- ... suggests that Wundts efforts were flawed and don't meet the criteria of scientific enquiry