Origins of Psychology
- Created by: Karen Askew
- Created on: 17-10-16 20:51
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- Origins of psychology
- Introspection
- Wundt: First person to call themselves a psychologist
- 1870 - created introspection
- Where a person gains knowledge about their own mental and emotional states
- Examines conscious feelings
- Thoughts, images, sensations
- Participants given a stimulus and reflected on the experience
- Introspection was subjective and varied from person to person
- Biased by personal interpretatioin or previous experience
- Wundt: First person to call themselves a psychologist
- Early behaviourists
- Watson questioned the scientific status of introspection
- created behaviourism
- Watson said truly scientific psychology could be observed and measured
- focused on observable behaviour
- What goes on inside the head is equally as important so cognitive approach was born
- Watson questioned the scientific status of introspection
- Introspection
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