Wilhelm Wundt

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    • known as 'the father of psychology'
    • moved psychology from philosophical roots to controlled research
    • in 1873 he published the first book on psychology
    • in 1879 he opened the first psychologica laboratory
    • he promoted the use of introspection as a way of studying mental processes
    • this promotion of introspection lead to further controlled research by other psychologists
    • Introspection- the systematic analysis of the mind, involves breaking up consciousness into thoughts, emotions and sensations, pps are asked to reflect on their own cognitive processes and describe them whilst completing a task, i.e. thinking out loud
    • introspection- was intended as a highly systematic and controlled process- a science
    • lab was in leipzig germany, 1879- marks the beginning of scientific psychology,
    • he aimed to study human consciousness- the first systematic attempt to study the mind- used introspection
    • wundts work on introspection- the first systematic and experimental attempt to study human behaviour- he wanted to develop theories about mental processes such as language and perception, recorded experiences of stimuli such as sounds and objects