Wundt

    Cards (8)

    • Created the first ever psychological lab in Germany, in 1879
    • Made psychology as the mix of philosophy and biology - emphasising objective measurement and control
    • Often associated with the school of thought, known as structuralism
    • Discovered introspection
    • Introspection
      Participants are asked to consider the mental processes happening while they view a stimulus - they are later asked to record these and Wundt analyses and compares them to identify patterns and create theories
    • Support of experimental psychology sett the stage for behaviourism
    • First to use the scientific method
    • Scientific Work
      Construction of theories
      Paradigms
      Behaviourist approach