Origins of psychology
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- Created on: 22-03-22 20:47
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- Origins of psychology
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- Strict scientific methods
- Replicable
- Standardised instructions/ procedures
- Creates results of general theories
- Behaviourist argue it is very subjective
- General principlpes are difficult to make
- Strict scientific methods
- 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
- A03: evaluation
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