AQA A Level Psychology - Wundt & Introspection Exam Questions & Answers 100% Pass

Introspection - ANSWER -A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings When did Wundt open the first psychology laboratory? - ANSWER -1879 How did Wundt study consciousness? - ANSWER -His students gave self-reports of their thoughts and feelings in response to stimuli How did Wundt contribute to the emergence of psychology as a science? - ANSWER -He used scientific method, a controlled environment and followed a standardised procedure so his methods could be replicated. Structuralism - ANSWER -Early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind Independent variable in Wundt's experiment - ANSWER -The stimulus presented Dependent variable in Wundt's experiment - ANSWER -The participant's verbal expression of inner thoughts and feelings Extraneous variable in Wundt's experiment - ANSWER -The participant's natural censorship and inability to word everything thought and felt