Wundt and introspection

• in 1879 Wundt opened the first psychological lab in germany
• Wundts pioneering became known as introspection
• Wundts main objectives were to try and develop theories about mental processes such as language and perception
• structuralism - isolating the structure of consciousness in this way called structuralism
• 1900s - sigmund freud 


  psychodynamic approach is introduced and freud pushes for the unconscious mind to be more researched
• freud believed that our behaviour was driven by unconscious desires, thoughts and feelings which we are not aware of
• introspection produces subjective data