Wundt Flashcards
(5 cards)
Who was Wundt
‘father of psychology’
Who developed the first psychological lab (Leipzig, Germany)
What did Wundt do?
Controlled lab research on stimuli 1)
Asked patients to react then to self-report their experiences 2)
Wundt then Drawed Conclusions from data 3)
Strength of Wundt studies (AO3)
+ Some of his methods were scientific
-Methods (systematic) & well controlled. -> causing avoidance of extraneous variables
- Reliable prodecure
Limitation of Wundt studies (AO3)
(-) Considered unscientific today (due to it being subjective)
-Wundt relied on ppnts self reporting there mental processes
-Data collected could have some personal biases/ not accurate data at all
-Lowers the validity of the results.
What is introspection.
study of mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thought.