Origins of Psych

• The Father of Psychology was Wilhelm Wundt
• In 1873, Wundt published the 'Principles of Physiological Psychology', and in 1879 opened the first psychology lab in Germany
• Wundt studied structuralism, introspection, and introspection as a method of studying the mind
• Structuralism is breaking the mind down into basic elements to understand human behaviour.
• Give strengths and weaknesses of introspection

  Strengths: character building, inner guided decisions

  weakness:bias,state of one's mental processes is continously changing, cannot be used on children w mental disorders
• The scientfic method refers to the use of investigate methods that are....

  objective,systematic,replicable
• What assumptions was his scientific approach based of?

  all behaviours is seen as being caused(determined)

  -if behaviours is determined then it be possible to predict how human beings would behave in different cond.
• what did he use to investigate the mind?

  introspection-'looking into'
• Strengths and weakness of the scientific approach

  strengths:ppl trust it as a science, seen as reliable,contributes to the knowledge of human behaviours.

  weakness: human error, lacks ecological ability,artifical behaviours,