Approaches
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
Father of psychology
Author of 'Principles of Physiological Psychology' (1873)
Owner of the first Psychology lab (1879)
What is Introspection?
Description and documentation of the Nature of the human conciousness
How did Wundt make Psychology more scientific?
Introduced controlled environments and standardised instructions (made more objective)
What was the process of exploring Introspection?
Wundt and all his co-workers experince the same stimulus e.g. a metronome
Participants reflected on internal feelings, sensations and images
The same instructuons were given to each participant, making the process replicable.
What is structuralism?
The breaking down of conciousnesses into their seperate parts