PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Apperception, Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology

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Born in germany, studied with helmholtz and muller. For a long time, was famous for two things: founded what is often called the first laboratory in experimental psychology, in. Leipzig (1879: laboratory attracted many young scholars that went on to produce psychology studies elsewhere. Believed that only the simplest of psychological processes (reaction times) could be studied with laboratory methods. Other, more complex processes (language) should be studied as they occurred naturally: two methods for the study of psychology. Experimental method was derived from other disciplines, especially chemistry. Had been influenced by mill"s ideas of mental of chemistry" but believed that they could be studied by introspection: looking inwards at our own mental processes (unlike mill) Introspection has been an issue in psychology because it isn"t really a scientific method. Even wundt saw this so developed 2 methods: self-observation: what everyone does and cannot be used for science, due to personal bias.

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