Wundt

Question 1

Key facts

Answer 1

Considered ‘the father of psychology’
Established the first psychological laboratory in Germany
1873- Published the first book on psychology
1879- Opened the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
The approach of structuralism

Question 2

Structuralism

Answer 2

To study the structure of the human mind, breaking down behaviours into their basic elements

Question 3

Introspection

Answer 3

Latin ‘looking into’
Participants asked to reflect on their own cognitive processes and describe them
Wundt established psychology as a science- using the scientific method, leading to multiple different psychological perspectives