Origins of Psychology
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- origins of psychology
- different approaches
- behaviourist approach - associating things with good and bad
- established by John B Watson in 1913
- the social learning theory - watching others being punished and rewarded
- established 1977 by Albert Bandura
- biological approach - our behaviour is biologically determined
- established in 1800s by Charles Darwin
- cognitive approach - the mind is like a computer
- established by George A Miller in 1956
- psychodynamic approach - unconscious instincts
- established 1900s by Sigmund Freud
- humanistic approach - each person is unique
- established 1954 by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
- behaviourist approach - associating things with good and bad
- Wilhelm Wundt
- opened the first psychology laboratory in 1879
- introspection - Wundt asked his students to respond to a stimulus with their thoughts and feelings towards it
- Wundt's methods may not be considered scientific by todays standards
- Wundt's methods did promote scientific research as he conducted experiments in controlled conditions
- strengths
- behaviorism believes in scientific methodology
- psychodynamic has important basic principles
- humanistic accounts for human differences
- cognitive extremely scientific
- biological extremely scientific
- social learning theory is flexible
- weaknesses
- behaviorism underestimates the complexity human behaviour
- psychodynamic not very scientific
- humanistic not scientific
- biological treats the illness doesn't find the cause
- social learning theory weak when it come to accountability
- different approaches
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