Wundt & introspection

• Participants were given carefully controlled stimuli e.g. metronome, making the recording of data more scientific.
• The same stimulus was used each time, allowing for replication under standardised conditions, hence producing reliable data.
• Introspection is based on subjective analysis of your own thoughts, which is not scientific.
• Introspection can be used to describe both an informal reflection process and a more formalised experimental approach.
• Introspection involves informally examining our own internal thoughts and feelings.
• When we reflect on our thoughts, emotions, and memories and examine what they mean, we are engaging in introspection.
• The term introspection is also used to describe a research technique that was first developed by psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
• Introspection is also known as experimental self-observation.
• Wundt's technique involved training people to carefully and objectively as possible analyse the content of their own thoughts.
• Wundt developed the technique of ‘introspection’. This is how people gain knowledge about their own mental and emotional states.
• Introspection is the process by which a person gains knowledge about their own mental and emotional states.
• Wundt wanted to make psychological analysis more scientific.
• Wundt wanted to standardise procedures for studying mental processes.
• Wundt tried to isolate the structure of consciousness which became known as structuralism.
• Wundt is believed to be the founder of modern Psychology.