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An experimenter who has been carefully trained in the techniques of self-observation uses himself as his object. He attempts to analyze his own immediate experience into its elements. This study would most likely occur in the laboratory of ____________?

Correct answer: D. Edward Titchener

  • A. John Watson
  • B. Max Wertheimer
  • C. Hermann von Helmholtz
  • D. Edward Titchener

Explanation

Edward Titchener made trained introspection the central method of structuralism, asking observers to report and analyze immediate conscious experience into basic elements. Watson rejected introspection, while Wertheimer founded Gestalt psychology.

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