Wundt

Question 1

What did Wundt establish?

Answer 1

The first ever laboratory dedicated entirely to psychological inquiry

Question 2

When and where was the first lab created?

Answer 2

1879 in Leipzig, Germany

Question 3

What is structuralism?

Answer 3

Attempting to uncover hidden structures of the mind by describing it in terms of the most simplistic definable components

Question 4

Outline introspection (3 marks)

Answer 4

1) Introspection is a systematic analysis of one’s own experience
2)Participants were presented with standardised sensory events like a ticking metronome and asked to report their reactions of the object.
3)Their experiences are analysed in terms of structuralism and this was to make the data objective rather than subjective

Question 4

What is the aim for introspection?

Answer 4

To discover and break down thoughts and analyse them to understand what they meant and why this was

Question 5

A strength

Answer 5

• Wundt created the first laboratory which is a controlled environment
• This allowed him (and others) to create standardised methods and testable hypotheses
• This meant that this increased the replicability and internal reliability of his findings
• As a result, this helped the shift psychology from philosophy to a science.

Question 6

What is inference?

Answer 6

The process of drawing conclusions from evidence and reasoning