Wilhelm Wundt (1879)

Wundts strengths?

He made his instructions identical, making them repeatable.

What did he do?

He was the founder of psychology as a science.

What is structuralism?

Isolating the structure of consciousness. Stimuli presented in the same order, instructions to all participants.

Standardised instructions

Instructions that are the same for everyone, Wundt and co-workers recorded experiences of various stimuli, such as different objects/sounds. Categories divided into thoughts, images and sensations.

What is introspection?

Gaining knowledge of your own mental state - introspection was the first experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic thoughts, images and sensations.

Replicable

Straightforward to repeat

What is psychology?

Scientific structure of the mind, behaviour and experience.