Origins of Psychology

• Who was Wundt?

  Wilhelm Wundt was often referred to as the "father of experimental psychology" because he used empirical scientific research techniques to study the mind.

  
• what did wundt do?

  Established the first psychology laboratory, the institute of experimental psychology.

  Wundt produced one of the first books on psychology

  Wundt produced the first academic journal containing psychological experiments.

  Wundt trained many students who would go on to be psychology professors

  
• What is structuralism?

  Uncovering the hidden structure of the mind by describing it by its simplest and definable components. His work focused on the structure of sensation and perception and the method he used was introspection.
• what is introspection?

  Participants were trained to conscious experiences as objectively as possible by focusing on a sensory object like a ticking metronome and then systematically report their experience by breaking their thoughts into sensations, feelings and images.