introspection

• Comes from the Latin word which means “looking into”
• Introspection is the examination of a person’s thoughts
• Wundt gave the participants a stimulus and asked to reflect on their own cognitive process and describe them.
• ·       Conducted lab experiments and strictly controlled the environments where introspection took place.

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•     Controlled the stimuli tasks that participants were asked to think about

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•    Limited the range of responses they might give

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•   Trained his participants so that they could give the most detailed observations possible