AQA A Level Psychology – Approaches Questions and Answers 100% Pass

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AQA A Level Psychology – Approaches Questions and Answers 100% Pass Approaches ✔✔Different ways of explaining psychological phenomena Wilhelm Wundt ✔✔-In 1873 Wilhelm Wundt published the ... first lab in Leipzig, Germany -He broke down behaviours into their basic elements, his approach became known as structuralism -He was the first one to say you could study the mind Introspection ✔✔Examining one's own mental activity and breaking down conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts and sensations. To inspect the human mind The Behaviourist Approach ✔✔A way of explaining behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning The Behaviourist Approach: Assumption ✔✔-All behaviour is learned through experience and can be explained in terms of classical conditioning and operant conditioning -Only observable behaviour is relevant; references to mental processes are unnecessary -Human behaviour is qualitatively no from non-human behaviour Pavlov (1927) ✔✔Focus on animal responses to new stimuli (must have correct amount of sensitivity, otherwise overwhelming) Classical Conditioning ✔✔A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired Before Conditioning: USC = UCR NS ≠ UCR During Conditioning: UCS + NS = UCR After Conditioning: [Show More]

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