A psychological method which involves analysing your own thoughts and feelings internally.
What is introspection used for?
Used to study sensation and perception by asking participants to describe their experiences when presented with a set of stimuli and often their reaction times were recorded.
Aimed to record thoughts and sensations and to describe them to analyse them into their constituent elements.
What is a positive of introspection?
Carried out under strictly controlled conditions (standardised procedure).
What is a negative of introspection?
Issue with the DV-too subjective and is relying on the participants' response rather than something empirical.
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
Father of psychology
Established the first experimental psychology laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig
First person to be known as a psychologist as his work moved away from philosophy too experimental psychology.
What is structuralism?
Theory of consciousness that analyses the elements of mental experiences, such as sensations, mental images, and feelings, and how these elements combine to form complex experiences.
