Strengths of Wundt and introspection:

• 1.       introspection still used today to gain access to cognitive process.e.g. Griffiths (1994) used introspection to study the cognitive process of fruit machine gambler and non-gamblers.
• 1.       3.He asked the, to use introspection and “think aloud” whilst playing a fruit machine into a microphone attached to their clothes.
• 2.       Gamblers used more irrational verbalisation gamblers were more likely to have cognitive biases specifically illusion of control
• 3.       Additionally, they believed if they were more familiar with the specific machine they were more likely to win. They also showed distorted views of reality by personifying and talking to the machines.