origins of psychology (Wundt)

• Wundt was born in 1832 and died in 1920
• what is introspection?


  investigating your own mental processes
• requirements for Wundt's method of introspection:

  1. use of 'trained' or practiced observers - they could immediately report a reaction
  2. repeatable stimuli that always produced the same reaction - increases validity.
• eval for Wundt's method of introspection:

  - demand characteristics

  - oder effects
• what were the two main goals of psychology according to Wundt?

  1. identify components of the consciousness
  2. identify how those components combined result in our conscious experience
• structuralism:


  understanding the structure of the brain