Approaches

• What was psychology known as before it was a science?

  Experimental psychology
• What was Rene Descartes theory?

  Cartesian dualism
• What is cartesian dualism?

  The mind and the body are separate/ the brain is the same as the mind
• What was John Locke’s theory called?

  Empiricism
• What is empiricism?


  Empiricism is the theory that knowledge is derived from sensory experience and observation.
• What was Charles Darwin’s theory called?

  Evolutionary theory
• What is the evolutionary theory?

  Human behaviours have evolved due to their adaptive nature
• What did Wilhelm Wundt do?

  He published the first ever psychology book in 1873 and opened the first psychology lab in 1879.
• What is Wilhelm Wundt known as?

  Father of Psychology
• What was Wilhelm Wundt’s theory?

  Structuralism- breaking down mental processes into their basic components
• What was Wilhelm Wundt’s approach called?


  Introspection
• What is introspection?


  The process of examining one's own thoughts, feelings, images and sensations
• How did Wundt make psychology a science?

  Controlled conditions, standardised procedures, replications
• What was Wundt’s approached based on?

  The assumption that all behaviour is determined and so we should be able to predict how humans will behave (known as predictability)
• What are the weaknesses of introspection?


  Subjectivity, relies on non-observable responses
• What are the 4 goals of psychology as a science?

  Description, explanation, prediction, change
• What was Wundt’s aim?

  To analyse the of nature of human consciousness