Origins of Psychology
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- Origins of Psychology
- Wundt and introspection
- Recorded own conscious thoughts and broke them down (structuralism)
- Describe nature of human consciousness
- First psychology lab in Germany 1879
- Standardised instructions used so it could be replicated
- Used controlled conditions and the same stimuli
- Watson and early behaviourists
- Only study behaviour that can be observed
- Critical of introspection due to it being subjective
- Brought methods of natural sciences to psychology (lab experiments)
- Wundt and introspection
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