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| Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those conected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. |
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| Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was born on 16 August 1832 - 31 August 1920 in Germany. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. |
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Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that explores internal states including attention, thinking, and decision-making. |
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| Qualitative research is often said to be naturalistic, its goal is to understand behaviour in a natural setting. |
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Research in quantitative psychology develops psychological theory in relation to mathematics and statistics. Psychological research requires the elaboration of existing methods and the development of new concepts, so that quantitative psychology requires more than "applications" of statistics and mathematics. |
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| Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts , desires and sensations, examining one's own thoughts, feelings , and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul . |
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| Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American author, inventor, philosofer. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Havard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. |
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| Methodological Behaviourism |
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It has sometimes been said that “behave is what organisms do.” Behaviorism is built on this assumption, and its goal is to promote the scientific study of behavior. |
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Empirical research is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct observation or experience. Empirical evidence can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively. |
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John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism , after doing research on animal behavior. |
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