Wundt and introspection

• Wundt's Goal

  To establish psychology as a science, study consciousness, and uncover the building blocks of mental processes to understand human behavior.
• who is Wundt?

  -Known as the father of psychology, his main goal was to establish psychology as science and separate it from philosophy
• what did Wundt to separate psychology from philosophy?

  In 1879,he open the first lab dedicated to psychological research, signifying the beginning of scientific psychology. The work done there laid the foundation for many fields of psychology.
• What experimental method did he use in his lab?

  -introspection, which is the psychological process of 'looking inwards' and examining one's mental and emotional state as objectively as possible.
• why was introspection relevant?

  -it was the first systematic attempt at studying the mind -It also still used in modern psychology
• How was introspection used in his lab? and why?

  -he used trained participants and kept it standardised

  -This was to produce similar results between each of them
• what are Wundt's contributions to psychology?

  -separated psych from philosophy by opening the first lab -introduced introspection + structuralism
• what is the breakdown of mental processes ( sensations, mental images, and feelings)into their most basic elements through introspection to analyze them called?

  Structuralism
• what is standardisation and why was it used?

  keeping all the conditions the same (same stimuli, instructions and order) to produce the same results
• Strengths of introspection:

  -started what we knew as experimental psychology

  -still used in therapeutic setting as it helps us better understand ourselves -somewhat scientific, as it standardised
• limitations of introspection


  -unscientific: the