origins of psychology Flashcards
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Wilhelm Wundt
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- knows as the father of psychology
- 1st lab experiment in Leipzig
- wanted to describe the nature of human consciousness known as introspection
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introspection
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a systematic method used to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into a basic structure of thoughts, images and sensations
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
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suggested that the mind and body are independent from each other ‘Cartesian dualism’
“I think therefore i am”
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John Locke (1632-1704)
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proposed ‘empiricism’- idea that all experience can be obtained through the sense and that human beings inherit neither knowledge nor instincts
behaviourist approach- world can be understood by investigating external events that are observed and measured
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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evolutionary theory- human and animal behaviour has changed over successive generations
- survival of the fittest
- adaptive
- biological approach
