Wundt and introspection

Question 1

What is wundt considered as ?

Answer 1

the founding father of psychology

Question 2

what is introspection ?

Answer 2

• a way if studying conscious mental processes
• a process of self-examination
• a systematic analysis of ones own conscious experience of standard stimuli

Question 3

strength of wundts introspection …

Answer 3

controlled - the stimuli were the same each time, such as a metronome
the same STANDARDISED instructions were given to each PP
and this allowed the research to be replicated
marked the scientific controlled aspect of psychology

Question 4

weaknesses of wundts introspection …

Answer 4

1. unscientific today
   relied on self reports
   social desirability bias
   not meet the requirements of scientific credibility
2. subjective interpretation of introspection

Question 5

what was wundts experiment ?

Answer 5

ask participants to write all their conscious thoughts and introduce stimuli to people e.g foot tapping to see if it affected their conscious thoughts

Question 6

why did wundt help the development of psychology as a science ?

Answer 6

set up first lab in germany

Question 7

WHAT WAS WUNDTS AIM?

Answer 7

to break consciousness down into its constitute parts to uncover the mind, this method is named structuralism

Question 8

EXPLAIN TIMELEINE OR DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES

Answer 8

WUNDT - INTROSPECTION - 1879
FREUD - 1900S
BEHAVIOURISM - WATSON AND SKINNER - 1913
HUMANISM - 1950S
COGNITIVE - 1960S
SLT - BANDURA - 1960S
BIOLOGICAL - 1980S
NEUROSCIENCE - 21ST CENTURY

Question 9

when was wundt

Answer 9

1879

Question 10

what was wundts main stimulus

Answer 10

a metronome

Question 11

what was consciousness broken down to

Answer 11

sensations. emotions, mental images

Question 12

WUNDT SUMMARY AO1

Answer 12

• wundt was the founding father of psychology - moving psychology from its philosophical roots to scientific
• he set up the first lab in 1870s
• promoted introspection
• a way of studying conscious mental processes by self-examination
• a stimulus (metronome would be added)
• consciousness was broken doen into many eleemnts and P.P had to reprot their expeirence of these
• this systematic break down is called structuralism

Question 13

why would behaviourists critique introspection

Answer 13

because they believed we can only study what can be directly observed we cannot understand the private operations of the mind it requires too much subjectivity and unscientific reasoning