ORIGINS OF PSYCHOLOGY

~RENE DESCARTES~

→ Suggested that the mind and the body are independent from each other (known as CARTESIAN DUALISM)

~JOHN LOCKE~

→ Suggested that all experiences are obtained through our senses, NOT inherited through knowledge or instincts (known as PROPOSED EMPIRICISM)

~CHARLES DARWIN~

→ Suggested that all human and animal behaviour has changed over generations (SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST)

~WILHELM WUNDT~

→ Known as the father of psychology

→ He opened the first psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany

→ He aimed to document and describe the nature of human consciousness (INTROSPECTION)

→ Him & his colleagues recorded their own conscious thoughts and aimed to break them down into individual parts (STRUCTURALISM)

→ most of his work is now considered ‘naive’ and ‘invalid’

INTROSPECTION

→ Recorded under controlled conditions using the same stimulus

→ Participants listened to a ticking metronome and were asked their thoughts, feelings and sensations in response to it

→ Participants report their experiences to which Wundt would analyse them

~WATSON~

→ He questioned introspection as he argued that the data produced is too subjective

→ He believed psychology should only study things that can be observed and measured

→ From this, THE BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH was born

SCIENTIST APPROACH → continued using the experimental methods in research. Used technology such as fMRI and EEG techniques.