AQA Psychology A-Level Paper 2 Exam Questions and Answers Verified by Experts

Wilhelm Wundt -ANSWER - - First Psychologist - First Lab in Germany - Experimental Conditions - Structuralism and Introspection Introspection -ANSWER - Person Gains knowledge about their mental state by examining their conscious thoughts and feelings Empiricism -ANSWER - Knowledge is derived from sensory experience, characterised by the use of the scientific method Scientific Method -ANSWER - The investigative methods that are: - Objective - Systematic - Reliable Evaluation of Wundt -ANSWER - - methods were unreliable as it relied on non-observable - Introspection is not accurate because people are often unaware of are behaviours Evaluation of the Scientific Approach -ANSWER - - its objective and systematic - Rely on determinism - Self corrective - Create non-naturalistic environments - Human behaviour is not always observable to the rules of science Classical Conditioning -ANSWER - Pavlov - When a neutral stimulus is consistently paired with an unconditional stimulus so that it takes on the properties on the stimulus and is able to produced a conditioned response Classical Conditioning steps -ANSWER - UCS -> UCR NS -> No Response UCS+NS -> UCR CS -> CR