Origins

• Introspection


  •Refers to the process of observing and examining your own consults thoughts and emotions

  •’looking into’
• •Wundt known as the father of Psychology
• •Wundt first to bring empirical methods that were scientific
• •Wundt promoted introspection to study the mental processes
• • encouraged others to look at more appropriate methods as Wundts methods were unable to be applied to higher mental processes e.g. languages
• •Introspection still used in today’s society e.g. in therapy
• Drawback of Wundt

  Validity drawn from introspection is questionable

  • many aspects of the mind are outside our conscious awareness

  • Nisbett and Wilson research about the Halo effect
• Advantage of Wundt


  Introspection seen as the forerunner of the cognitive approach

  •highly valuable contribution towards society
• Disadvantage of Wundt 


  Greater contributions to the development of psychology by early behaviourists

  • Pavlov and Skinner produced findings with explanatory principles that were generalisable