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