Origins

• Studying the mind used to be a philosophy
• Wundt (1870s)


  Started controlled emperical scientific research
• Wundt set up the first psychological lab in Germany, studying internal mental processes using introspection (looking inwards)
• Wundt conducted their study using a metronome, for analysing your own conscious experience to standard stimuli
• Wundt got participants to report present experiences such as sensations, emotional reactions and mental images
• Wundt was named the Father of Psychology due to changing Psychology from a subjective to objective study of the brain
• Wundt's research established the behaviourist and cognitive approach, promoting investigating psychology
• (+) A03: Lab Study

  Wundt paved the way for scientifically controlled research in Psychology
• (+) A03: Cognitive Approach

  Study of the internal mental processing was continued by cognitive psychologists later on, who built models of how processes worked e.g. memory
• (-) A03: Criticised Study

  Behaviourist learning psychologists criticised it believing internal mental processing couldnt be scientifically studied using introspection