A short plan for a 'Historical Perspectives in Psychology' Essay on the emergence of psychology as an empirical science.
Planning for the question: 'With reference to supporting sources, provide an evaluation of one of the following schools of psychology as an empirical science: Structuralism, Fun...
Plan:
With reference to supporting sources, provide an evaluation of one of the following schools of
psychology as empirical science: Structuralism, Functionalism, or Cognitivism.
Empirical science – supported by evidence from the senses or elements or experience
Structuralism – theory of consciousness by wilhem wundt and Titchener, structure of the Mind
- The 3 aims: analysis, synthesis, explanation – would never pass the first aim
- Use of lab experiments and equipment to gather empirical evidence
- Use of introspection then self-reports– despite Wundt rejecting
- Titchener’s methods as a whole
- Introspection
- System errors
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