origins/structuralism

• Wundt


  -first person to call themselves psychologist

  -moved psychology from philosophical roots to controlled research

  -believed human mind could be studied scientifically

  -studied human behaviour in lab

  -aimed to study structure of human mind by breaking down behaviour into basic elements
• stucturalism 


  -break down structure of human mind & behaviours to simple elements
• introspection - Wundt


  -gaining knowledge about own emotional / mental state

  -Wundt claimed mental processes could be observed systematically

  -'looking into'
• Wundt's study 


  -Wundt rejected introspection

  -Ps all shown same stimulus

  -describe inner processes they were experiencing

  -compare differences Ps reports & establish theories about perception

  -seperated Wundts work from psychology's broader term
• Griffith's gambling study - research using introspection - AIM


  -investigate the thought processes of people who gambled regularly & those who didn't gamble
• gambling study - PROCEDURE


  -proposed the thought processes of gambling would be more irrational

  -used introspection

  -Ps asked to 'think aloud' while playing fruit machine

  -say everything going through mind by talking continuously

  -not to justify
• gambling study - FINDINGS / CONCLUSION

  -gamblers did have more irrational thoughts