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AQA A-Level Psychology: Wundt and Origins of Psychology - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 11 times
- The average score is 5 of 41
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Who was the first person to call himself a psychologist? | Wilhelm Wundt | 67%
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| Where was his lab located? | Leipzig, Germany | 56%
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| What was the main technique he used called? | Introspection | 44%
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| What does introspection mean in Latin? | Looking into | 33%
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| What did he believe about all aspects of nature, including the human mind? | It could be studied scientifically. | 22%
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| AO3: What is one LIMITATION of the scientific approach? | Lacks ecological validity - Research is typically conducted in labs and used contrived situations that don't reflect real-life. | 22%
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| AO3: What is one STRENGTH of introspection? | Research support - Teenagers were given beepers that went off randomly to measure happiness. They used introspective methods to find that teenagers were happier when undergoing challenging tasks. | 22%
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| What are the four stages of the scientific cycle? | Testing | 22%
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| What year did he set up the first laboratory of experimental psychology? | 1879 / late 1870s | 11%
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| What was his original belief about human experience? | All aspects of human experience could be investigated experimentally | 11%
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| What are the two major assumptions of scientific psychology? | Behaviour is caused/determined | 11%
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| What are the four stages of the scientific cycle? | Building, refining, falsifying | 11%
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| These topics had to be studied using a more general technique which he called? | Cultural psychology | 11%
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| How did he establish general theories on perception? | He compared different participant reports in response to the same stimuli. | 11%
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| What are the two major assumptions of scientific psychology? | If behaviour is determined, then it should be possible to predict how human beings would behave in different conditions. | 11%
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| What are examples of these higher mental processes? | Learning / Language / Emotions | 11%
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| What makes data systematic? | Observations or experiments are carried out in an orderly way. | 11%
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| What does introspection allow us to observe? | Our inner world | 11%
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| How did he study perception? | Participants were given a controlled stimuli (like an auditory tone) and asked to describe their inner processes of what they were experiencing when they listened to the tone. | 11%
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| What did he first study first? | Reaction time | 11%
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| AO3: What is one STRENGTH of the scientific approach? | Reliable - Uses objective, systematic, replicable techniques and relies of determinism. If theories no longer fit the facts, they can be refined or abandoned. | 11%
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| What is the general term for his approach? | Structuralism | 11%
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| What are the three features of the scientific method? | Systematic, objective, replicable | 11%
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| What was his nickname? | The father of psychology | 11%
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| What technique is used to explore these assumptions? | The scientific method | 11%
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| What was his aim? | To study the structure of the human mind. | 11%
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| AO3: What is one LIMITATION of introspection? | Unreliable - Based on non-observable constructs such as memory and perception which are unconscious processes. Based on inferences. | 11%
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| What are the four stages of the scientific cycle? | Development of a scientific theory | 0%
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| What did he realise about higher mental processes? | Higher mental processes couldn't be studied in this strict controlled manner. | 0%
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| AO3: What is one LIMITATION of introspection? | Inaccurate - Some behaviours are unconscious so introspection wouldn't uncover them. | 0%
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| What do empiricists believe? | Knowledge comes from observation and experience alone (it is not innate). | 0%
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| AO3: What is one LIMITATION of Wundt's research? | Not replicable - Researchers struggled to reproduce his findings meaning his approach ultimately failed to be reliable. In comparison, Behaviourists were already achieving reliable, replicable results that were generalisable. | 0%
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| What are the four stages of the scientific cycle? | Objective, systematic, replicable observation | 0%
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| What makes data replicable? | Observations can be repeated by other researchers to determine whether the same results are obtained. | 0%
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| What behaviours did he use to study the human mind? | Perception / Sensation | 0%
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| What do the findings lack if data is not replicable? | Reliability | 0%
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| What makes data objective? | Researchers don't let preconceived ideas or biases influence data. | 0%
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| AO3: What is one STRENGTH of the scientific approach? | Self-corrective -If theories no longer fit the facts, they can be refined or abandoned. New theories will continually emerge. | 0%
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| Define empiricism. | The belief that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience. | 0%
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| What did he infer from this first study? | The longer it took to respond, the more mental processes must be involved. | 0%
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| Define introspection. | The process by which a person gains knowledge about their own mental and emotional states as a result of examination or observation of their conscious thoughts and feelings. | 0%
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