Origins of psychology

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what's the order it was found in?
wudnt opened the first lab for psychology, freud found psychodynamic, Watson and skinner found behaviourist, rogers and maslow found humanistic, cognitive found, biological found, cognitive neuroscience found
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what is structuralism and who found it?
wudnt's approach became known as structuralism, he use scientific methods to study consciousness, breaking 'structures' into small components ie sensations/perception.
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what is introspection and who found it and what did they do?
means 'looking into' where a person consciously observe their emotions and thoughts. wudnt was able to train participants to give detailed observations from their introspection after strictly controlling the environment and stimuli.
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what else did that psychologist say- referring to psychology as a science?
wudnt said that empirical methods (observable) can be applied to mental processes too.
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name evaluations of this
-skinner and Watson disagree saying it needs to be strictly evidence based
-a scientific approach is not always appropriate
+introspection is still useful, hunter et al did a study where teenagers had to write feelings when-
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-their beepers went off randomly, they were upbeat when doing challenging tasks but unhappy most of the time.
-Nisbett and Wilson argued we have little knowledge about the causes of behaviours, meaning introspection-
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-fails to look at the route if our behaviour
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