Wundt

Question 1

What did Wundt do?

Answer 1

Published the first book in psychology
Opened the first lab in Germany
Aimed to describe human consciousness carefully and scientifically

Question 2

Introspection

Answer 2

“Looking into”- participants were asked to reflect on their own cognitive processes and describe

Question 3

Stages/features of introspection

Answer 3

1. Presented with a stimulus
2. Inspect thoughts, and report back on emotions that resulted from stimulus
3. Draw conclusions and compare all responses + strengths and weaknesses

Question 4

Controlled procedures and standardised instructions

Answer 4

For all participants
Stimuli presented in the same order

Question 5

Structuralism

Answer 5

Identifying structure of consciousness by breaking it up thoughts, images and sensations
->Married start of scientific psychology

Question 6

Strengths of Wundt’s methods

Answer 6

SCIENTIFIC
-Within a controlled lab setting
-SP, all received same info + tested same way
–>forerunner to later scientific approaches

PIONEERING
-Produced the first academic journal and first textbook, set foundation for approaches

Question 7

Disadvantages of Wundt’s methods

Answer 7

SUBJECTIVE
-relies on non observable responses-unconscious?
-subjective data- hard to establish general principles, not reliably reproduced by others
REDUCTIONIST
-Wundt only looked at everything in its simplest form which means it oversimplifies the human mind(bio, psychological, social, cultural)