Wundt Ao3 Flashcards

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Strength - Wundt’s contribution is that most aspects were scientific

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E - where he recorded experiments in a controlled lab environment also committing standardised procedures where his participants were given the same information and testes the same way
E - this was useful to psychologists as he became a forerunner, where his knowledge and experiments would be used for future psychologists

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Limitation of wundts contribution is that some aspects are scientific

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E- he relied of self reporting patients expressing their private mental thought processes
E- however it was subjective as some participants wouldn’t want to share their private thougts
E- this wasn’t useful as it was difficult to determine general establish principles as not everyone would have the same thoughts every time. It became difficult to predict the future (one of the aims of science)

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