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17th - 19th century theories and psychologists? |
Philosophy, empiricism and Decartes + locke |
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1800 - 1900 theories and psychologists? |
Psychodynamic + freud |
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1879 theories and psychologists? |
Introspection + wundt |
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1913 - 1920 theories and psychologists? |
Behaviourist , Watson + Skinner |
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1950 theories and psychologists? |
Humanistic, maslow + rogers |
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1960 theories and psychologists? |
social learning theory + cognitive approach, bandura |
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1980 theory ? |
Biologocial |
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21st century theory? |
Cognitive neuroscience |
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What is psychology? |
Scientific study of the mind and behaviour |
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Define control |
Research involves manipulating IV and measuring DV and minimising EVs to establish cause + effect |
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Define objectivity |
Psychologists conduct research in an unbiased way , no feelings and emotions |
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Define predictability |
Aim is able to predict future behaviour from research findings |
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Define falsability |
Hypothesises based on theory are tested to see if they are true or false |
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Define replication |
Repeating a research study using the same methods to establish consistency of findings |
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What is introspection |
A person gains knowledge about their own mental and emotional states, |
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4 steps of introspection? |
1. Get participants 2. Give them a stimuli e.g: pictures, sounds , in a standardised procedure 3. Say everything they're feeling and note down everything they say ( thoughts , feelings ) 4. Measure and compare responses to specific stimuli |
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Weaknesses of introspection ? |
Subjective - biased results , he cannot directly observe so it's his ideas of what the participants results mean |
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Strengths of introspection ? |
Was praised for being 1st person to acquire knowledge using scientific methods |
