WUNDT AND INTROSPECTION

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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

  • The ‘Father’ of psychology

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What method did Wundt use on his patients?

Introspection

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What is introspection?

  • systematic analysis of one’s own conscious experience, thought processes, feelings, emotions and sensations

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How is introspection carried out?

  • patients are trained to analyse and report in detail their inner thoughts and then break them down into separate parts

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Where was introspection carried out?

  • Used in carefully controlled lab conditions with researchers being presented standardised tasks/stimuli (e.g. drawing, smell, noise)

  • Wundt claimed that with sufficient training introspection could be used to systematically observe mental processes (e.g. memory, perception)

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Explain Wundt’s method of introspection

  • conscious thoughts were recorded with aim of breaking them down into separate parts

  • Researchers presented with carefully controlled stimuli (e.g. visual images, auditory tones)

  • Asked to give details of inner thoughts and then processes they were experiencing - report what was experienced, give analysis of it

  • Recorded under strictly controlled conditions with standardised stimulus and instructions. This allowed procedures to be repeated each time.