Wundt's Role

• Wundt was a structuralist who used introspection to analyse conscious experience of the present
• Wundt tried to use controlled procedures in order for it to be replicable, but his methods were rather subjective- wasn't much reliability as other psychologists didn't get the same results and it is very difficult to study unobservable behaviour
• Wundt founded the institute of experimental psychology
• Wundt used structuralism as an approach- wanted to study the structure of the mind and break down behaviours into their basic elements
• Wundt believed that mental processes could be studied scientifically through introspection
• Wundt developed the first psychological laboratory at Leipzig University in Germany