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Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and exa...
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At this point, the task of determining a person's mental age was reminiscent of one of the psychophysical methods developed by Wundt to determine the level of a person's sensitivity to faint stimuli or to small physical differences in stimuli.
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Hence what we might call observation was called by Wundt introspection!) ... But physiological psychology originally meant experimental psychology -- using methods of physiology -- although not the experimental psychology of the behaviorists in the twentieth century.
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The methods of this new science were to be experimental. As Wundt described it, "Psychological introspection goes hand in hand with the methods of experimental physiology, and the application of the latter to the former has given rise to the psychophysical methods as a separate branch of experimental research.
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He believed that psychology was the science of conscious experience and that trained observers could accurately describe thoughts, feelings, and emotions through a process known as introspection. However, Wundt made a clear distinction between introspection, which he believed was inaccurate, and internal perception.
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Abstract: Wilhelm Wundt provided a complete and concise description of his introspective method in a 1907 paper criticizing the thought experiments ...
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Wilhelm Wundt was a founding father of laboratory psychology and a grand visionary of psychology as a discipline -- of how it fit among the sciences, of the structure of its object (the mind), of its methods, most centrally introspection -- and also an author so vastly prolific that most of his work remains...
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One of Wundt’s main methods used to investigate psychological phenomenon was introspection. To Wundt psychology was the science of experience and studying psychological phenomenon therefore involved studying conscious experience.
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The methods of psychology: as psychology was defined as the study of experience, and as an outside observer cannot gather information on subjective experience, Wundt turned to introspection as the tool for gathering data.
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Whilst Wundt's methods (Introspection) became regarded as not sufficiently objective, the idea that people needed to be studied under controlled conditions was highly influential. (c) The following is a statement illustrating a commonly held point of view: "Women are more emotional than men".
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