wundt

• Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) is generally considered the father of experimental psychology.
• WUNDT separated psychology from philosophy and biology and became the first person to be called a psychologist.
• • Wrote first textbook of psychology (Principles of Physiological Psychology, 1873-4)
• Set up first laboratory of experimental psychology (1879)
• Used the scientific method to study the structure of sensation and perception
• Showed that introspection could be used to study mental states in replicable laboratory experiments.
• Introspection is a psychological process that involves looking inward to examine one's own thoughts, emotions, judgments, and perceptions.
• wundts methods were unreliable - the processes were self reported and unobservable
• introspection is the process by which a person gains knowledge about their own mental status - observe our inner world. Memory and perception could be observed systematically through this