AS Psychology Year 1

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What is the scientific method?
The idea that psychological studies should be objective ( minimise bias), empirical (direct observation), control ( for causal relationships to be drawn), systematic(ordered), replicable( repeatabable) and valid (factual)
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt and what did he contribute to psychology?
He is known as the father of psychology who wrote his first book on psychology in 1873 and opened the first laboratory in Leipzig Germany 1879. He was one of the first people to classify psychology as a science.Introduced introspection/structuralism.
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What is Structuralism?
This means being concerned with the breaking down of the human mind into its basic structure. It is reductionist. E.g mind into memory,conciousness
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What is Introspection?
A latin word meaning looking into the human mind.
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What was Wilhelm Wundt's study?
A stimulus such as a ticking metronome was played and participants were told to reflect on their thought processes.
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What is Rene Descartes contribution to psychology ?
Cartesian dualism - the mind and the body are seperate entitites.
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What are John Locke's contributions to psychology?
Concept of empiricism- all knowledge is derived from sensory experience and can be studied using the scientific method and "Tabula Rasa" ( mind is a blank slate at birth)
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What is Charles Darwins contricution to psychology?
Evolutionary psychology - biological approach.
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