The emergence of psychology as a science

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What did Wundt contribute to psychology?
Wundt was responsible for separating Psychology from its philosophical roots and beginning more controlled structured research into the mind. In the 1870s he published the first book on psychology and set up the first psychology laboratory
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What is introspection?
Introspection is the systematic analysis of one’s own conscious experience of a stimulus. An individual who had undergone training in how to introspect would reflect on their own cognitive processes, perhaps while performing a particular task, and re
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Why were early behaviorists critical of the use of introspection?
as it relies on non-observable responses. Introspection produced data that was subjective. Introspective experimental results are not reliably reproduced by other researchers. This means that it became very difficult to establish general principles.
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What did Wundts approach do?
His approach to psychology was to study the structure of the human mind, by breaking down behavior into its basic elements. This made scientific study possible.
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What did thinkers such as Pavlov discover using Wundts approach?
they were achieving reliably reproducible results and discovering explanatory principles that could be easily generalized to all human beings.
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