Origins of psychology

• Who is wundt and what did he do ?

  • 1st person to call himself a psychologist
  • paved a way for the acceptance of psychology as a science
  • lab in leipzig, Germany
  • only studied the aspects that could be studied in controlled experimental conditions
• What was wundts aim ?

  • to study the structure of the human mind, he believed the best way to do this was through breaking down behaviours into their basic elements
• What did Wundt discover ?

  not all mental processes could be studied in a strict controlled environment

  • instead referred to these groups as ( learning, language + emotions) as cultural psychology
• What 4 behaviours did wundt break human behaviour into ?

  1. feelings
  2. emotions
  3. thoughts
  4. sensations
• How did wundt test his pp ?

  • asked them to focus on sound of a metrenome
  • asked to recall feelings, emotions, thoughts and sensations
  • wrote down findings which led to formation of modern psychology