Origins of Psychology - Wundt

• when and where did Wundt open the 1st psychological lab?


  - Leipzig, Germany

  - 1870's, studying internal mental processes
• define introspection


  - the careful, systematic self-observation of one's own conscious experience

  - reporting present experience: sensations, emotional reaction, mental images
• structuralism approach


  - breaking thoughts about an object down into separate elements

  - as an attempt to uncover the structure of the mind
• systematic approach


  - same stimulus, surroundings and instructions

  - ppts were highly trained
• A03, Wundt


  - paved the way for later scientifically controlled research

  - later criticised by behaviourists, who believed internal mental processes could not be studied scientifically by introspection (focused on observable stimulus/response research)

  - study on internal mental processes later continued by cognitive psychologists