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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continuing from previous card
-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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what is structuralism and who found it?
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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?
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what else did that psychologist say- referring to psychology as a science?
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