{"id":8272,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/introspective_method\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:54","slug":"introspective_method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/introspective_method\/","title":{"rendered":"Introspective method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traced back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Mathematicians\/Aristotle.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Mathematicians\/Aristotle.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aristotle<\/a> (384-322 BP), it is a method of data collection in which observers record their own mental processes and experiences. &nbsp;Refined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilhelmwundt.com\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.wilhelmwundt.com\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilhelm Wundt<\/a> (1832-1920) from uncontrolled to controlled introspection (or rather immediate retrospection), it was finally banished from psychology by the behaviourists and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/aso\/databank\/entries\/bhwats.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/aso\/databank\/entries\/bhwats.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John B. Watson <\/a>(1878-1958) in particular.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behaviorism\">Behaviorism<\/a>, Psychology <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traced back to Aristotle (384-322 BP), it is a method of data collection in which observers record their own mental processes and experiences. &nbsp;Refined by Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) from uncontrolled to controlled introspection (or rather immediate retrospection), it was finally banished from psychology by the behaviourists and John B. Watson (1878-1958) in particular.&nbsp; See Behaviorism, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/introspective_method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introspective method&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}