wundt- introspection Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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Introspection
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the first systematic experimental attempt to study the min by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts, images and sensations
2
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Where does the first experimental psychology lab open?
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Germany
3
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What was Wundt’s aim?
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to analyse the nature of human consciousness
4
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What method did Wundt use?
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introspection
5
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What was Wundt’s main objective?
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to develop theories about mental processes such as language and perception
6
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Wundt’s standardised procedure
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- participants recorded their experiences to various stimuli
- divide their observations into 3 categories (thoughts, images and sensations)
7
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structuralism def
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isolating the structure of cinsciousness
8
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Wundt’s work was scientific
strength
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- systematic and controlled
- extraneous variables not a factor
- procedures and instructions were standardised
9
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Wundt’s data was subjective
limitation
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- today, his research would be considered unscentific
- relied on participants self’reporting their mental processes
- participants may have hidden some thoughts
- difficult to establish ‘laws of behaviour’
