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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The ‘Father’ of psychology
What method did Wundt use on his patients?
Introspection
What is introspection?
systematic analysis of one’s own conscious experience, thought processes, feelings, emotions and sensations
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
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)
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.
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