Origins of psychology

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  • Origins of psychology
    • A03: evaluation
      • Strict scientific methods
        • Replicable
        • Standardised instructions/ procedures
        • Creates results of general theories
      • Behaviourist argue it is very subjective
        • General principlpes are difficult to make
    • Wundt and introspection
      • Structuralism
      • First psychological lab
      • Aimed to analyse the structure of sensation and perception
      • First attempt to study the mind in controlled conditioned
      • Develop theories about mental processes
    • Emergence of psychology as science
      • Psychodynamic / humanistic have not contributed
      • 1900s behaviourirsts
        • Skinner proposed research should be observed objectively
        • Contributed general laws (conditioning)
        • Focused on controlled observations
      • 1950s cognitive
        • Use of models to check (valid) research
        • Contributed importance of experiments
        • Testing predictions using experiments
      • 1980s biological
        • Contributed objective ways of measuring
        • New technology to investigate physiological processes
        • New scanning techniques

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