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What is psychology
study of the mind, behaviour and experience
What is introspection
examination of ones own thought processes
Psychology used to be seen as…
Philosophy
In 1879 Wundt…
opened his first laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
Wundt was known as …
The father of psychology
Griffiths (1994)
used introspection to study cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers. He asked them to think aloud whilst playing a fruit machine into a microphone
What does falsifiable mean ?
findings can be proved false
what does objective mean ?
it Is fact and not opinion
outline one criticism of Wundt’s contribution to psychology
There was a lack of reliability.
Outline two criticisms of introspection as a method of investigation
relies on non-observable responses
data produced was subjective
