PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychological Association, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener
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In 1879 wundt succeeded in establishing the first formal laboratory for research in psychology. Stanley hall (apa) and was elected its first president: studied briefly with wundt, based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic. Introspection - the systematic, careful self observation of ones own conscious experience: used to examine contents of consciousness, once trained, subjects were typically more exposed to auditory tones, optical illusions, and. Introspection requires training to make the subject more objective and more aware. visual stimuli under carefully controlled and systematically varied conditions and were asked to analyze what they experienced. If you depend solely on an individual"s reflection to document a phenomenon, there are no independent objective evaluations of that claim: limitations with the use of introspection contributed to demise of structuralism. Based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure.
