Cards (2)

    • Scientific
      One strength of Wundt's work is that some of his methods were systematic and well-controlled:
      • All introspections were recorded in controlled environments
      • Procedures were standardised
      • This suggests that Wundt's research can be considered a forerunner to later scientific approaches in psychology, such as the behaviourist approach
    • Subjective data
      One limitation is that other aspects of Wundt's research would be considered unscientific today:
      • Wundt relied on participants self-reporting their mental processes, which is subjective
      • Participants may have hidden some of their thoughts
      • Hard to generalise
      • This suggests that some of Wundt's early efforts to study the mind were flawed and would not meet the criteria of scientific enquiry today