Origins of psychology

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  • Origins of psychology
    • Features of a science
      • Paradigm shift
      • Theory construction
      • Falsifability
      • Objectivity
      • Empiricism
      • Hypothesis Testing
      • Replicability
      • Paradigm
    • Wundt
      • First person to be called a psychologist.
      • opened first psychology laboratory in 1879
      • Introspection
        • Introspection meant looking into his students minds by seeing how they react to stimuli
    • Timeline of emergence of psychology
      • Starts with Wundt becoming first psychologist and using introspection to look into the mind- 1879
      • Behavioural-1913
      • Biological- 1890
      • Psycho-dynamic  1939
      • Humanistic- 1961
      • Social learning theory- 1963
      • Cognitive - 1967
      • Cognitive neuroscience- 2000s
    • Evaluation
      • Strengths
        • Psychology is a science because many of the approaches follow the 8 features of a science
        • scientific method separates fact from opinion
      • Limitations
        • some approaches in psychology have no objective methods, only subjective
        • Most approaches are unobservable
        • Hard to be accurately measured

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