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Marc Barron November 30, 2003 Period 3 Cognitive psychology as a science began in 1879, with the establishment of the first psychology laboratory by Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany. The method of inquiry was mainly by introspection. But, the introspection approach ran into trouble in Europe, for different laboratories were reporting different types of introspection, giving rise to contradictions. The irrelevance of the introspection method and its apparent contradiction set the ground for the great behaviorist revolution in American psychology. According to this, psychology was entirely concerned with external behaviors, not the analysis of the mind underlying the behavior. Thus, it all but eliminated cognitive psychology for 40 years. Introspection is the process of "looking inward" and examining one's self and one's own actions in order to gain insight. This was a central component to the early days of psychology during the Structuralist period. Wundt and other psychologists had people introspect...

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