The Origins of Psychology

Introspection is a method to analyse your own and internally.
In the , there were no or computers to allow people to explore the inside workings of the brain.
As a way of investigating people's , Wundt used introspection to study and .
Participants were asked to describe their experiences when presented with a set of , and often their reaction times were recorded.
WEAKNESSES
Doesn't explain how the works - relies on people describing their and , usually isn't .
Doesn't provide data that can be used - as people are reporting on their own experiences, their accounts can't be .
STRENGTHS
Did other areas of the subject

ARGUMENT FOR PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
(1947) - said psychology has the aims as science - to , and .
Behaviourist, cognitive and biological approaches to psychology all use procedures to investigate theories - usually and

ARGUMENTS AGAINST PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
There are other approaches in psychology which don't use objective methods to study behaviour - they use methods (eg. interview techniques which can be biased and interpreted differently by different researchers).
It is very hard to get a sample of the population for a study, so findings can't reliably be .
Psychological experiments are also open to variables, such as , which can be hard to