Approaches

• Who was Wheilhem Wundt?


  a German physician, established the first labrartoy dedicated to the study of the human mind, marking the emergence of psychology as a separate scientific discipline.
• What was Wundt contribution of psychology?


  He separated psychology from philosophy and biology.
• What is introspection?


  The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional process.
• What is meant by scientific method?

  A method of procedure that has characterised natural science.
• Objectivity


  The quality of being an object
• Reliability 


  The quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well.
• Systematic


  Done or acting accordingly to a fixed plan or system: methodical
• Theory construction


  process of formulating and assembling components of theories into coherent wholes.
• Peer review 


  System used to access the quality of a manuscript before it is published.
• Falsifiable


  is an import feature of science. Its the principle that a proposition or theory could be considered scientific if in principle it was possible to establish it as false. (only scientific when proved false)
• Standardised

  instructions and conditions are the same
• what happened in 1878?

  Wundt opens the first psychology lab
• What happened in the early 1900s?


  Freud publishes work on dream analysis.
• What happened in the 1950s?

  Behaviourism develops, studying of stimulus response
• What happened in the 1960s-90s?

  Cognitive psychology develops, studying internal mental process.
• What happened in the 1960s?

  Social learning theory develops as a 'newer' behaviourist approach
• What happened in the later 20th century?


  The rise of biological research related to human behaviour.
• What did behaviourism reject?

  Introspection
• What are the four scientific methods?

  Replicability, systematic, objectivity, theory construction