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Wundt and Introspection:Wundt (1879)
Opened the first psychology lab in Germany. The focus was introspection.
Wilhelm Wundt, “father of psychology”.
He opened the first psychology lab in Leipzig, 1879.
Wundt set out to describe human consciousness and identify the basic “parts” which make
up conscious thoughts.
Wundts research method was termed “introspection”. It involved people recording their
conscious thoughts.
These thoughts would then be broken down into distinct structures of consciousness (i.e.,
thoughts, images, sensations...)
This approach was known as structuralism.
Introspection “internal perception”:
The process of examining mental activity (recording of conscious thoughts).
Structuralism:
Isolating the structure of the conscious mind (breaking ‘consciousness down into its
constituent parts’).
Evaluation:
+ He used a laboratory (a controlled, scientific environment) and introspections were
recorded under strict conditions.
+ Standardised instructions were given to all participants; therefore, the method was
replicable.
+ Wundt’s work was an important step towards modern psychology (earlier studies were
more philosophical)
- Wundt’s approach to studying the conscious mind are naïve nowadays.
- Although people can report on their conscious experiences, the mental processes are
unobservable.
- Participants had to be trained to introspect, which meant that their accounts could
have been biased to support the theories of those who trained them.
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