Question

Participants in research early in psychology's history might have been asked to view a chair and describe its color, shape, and texture and other aspects of their conscious experience. These individuals would have been using a method called ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Introspection

Explanation:

For the field of psychology, introspection refers to the first method used by Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, with the purpose of making a self-analysis of the mind to inspect and report personal thoughts and/or feelings. It is the so-called introspective method or psychological introspection. This method consisted of asking students to see a chair and describing its color, shape and texture and other aspects of their conscious experience.

Considered by Wundt to be the “science of conscious experience,” the introspective method used introspection, for only the individual who goes through such an experience is able to observe it. This method was known as internal perception.