Psych - Wundt

What is Wundt known as?

Wundt is known as the “Father of psychology”.

What did Wundt set up in 1879?

Wundt set up the first experimental psychology laboratory, Leipzig, in 1879.

What did Wundt study using pictures? What did he infer?

Wundt studied reaction time with pictures, he inferred that longer reaction times = more mental processes.

What did Wundt write in 1873?

Wundt wrote the first textbook of psychology “Principles of psychology” in 1873.

What does introspection mean?

Introspection means the examining of ones own thought processes.

How did Wundt study introspection?

Wundt had trained researchers examine their own thought processes for feelings, emotions and sensations, they reported back analysis of experience.

What did Wundts research become known as? Why?

Wundts research became known as structuralism because it used experimental methods to find basic building blocks of thoughts to investigate how they interacted.

Why was Wundts experiment on introspection not commonly accepted?

Because it was opinionated and individually based, not done under rigorously controlled conditions, external factors could still effect results - not replicable.

What does structuralism mean?

Methodological approach that interprets human culture, behavior, and language through the underlying systems of relationships that shape them.

What did Wundt focus on studying?

The internal mind.

What did Watson focus on?

Watson rejected Wundts focus on the internal mind instead focusing on observable behaviours.