- 1) Extremely variable results depending on the person
- 2) Results were difficult to verify since they were the subjects interpretation of internal ("invisible") mental processes

John Watson's two critiques of analytical introspection

A method used by structuralists to attain a scientific description of the components of experience. It aimed to get subjects to describe their experiences and thought processes after being introduced to a stimuli.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The psychological school of thought that posits our experience is made up of combining basic elements of experience, referred to as sensations. Wanted to make a "periodic table of elements" for psychology. It dominated psychology in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Structuralism

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Lepzig in Germany. "Founder" of structuralism.

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