Wundt and Introspection n

What is psychology

study of the mind, behaviour and experience

What is introspection

examination of ones own thought processes

Psychology used to be seen as…

Philosophy

In 1879 Wundt…

opened his first laboratory in Leipzig, Germany

Wundt was known as …

The father of psychology

Griffiths (1994)

used introspection to study cognitive processes of fruit machine gamblers. He asked them to think aloud whilst playing a fruit machine into a microphone

What does falsifiable mean ?

findings can be proved false

what does objective mean ?

it Is fact and not opinion

outline one criticism of Wundt’s contribution to psychology

• There was a lack of reliability.

Outline two criticisms of introspection as a method of investigation

• relies on non-observable responses

• data produced was subjective