Wilhelm Wundt, founder of structuralism
Analytical introspection is a method of examining the mind by naming all kinds of associations one had in a stimulus. The method was often used by Wilhelm Wundt's psychological school of structuralism, considered by many as the first real psychological school. Analysis
The structuralists did not see consciousness as a continuous flow. According to them, consciousness consisted of sections. With analytical introspection, they tried to discover which parts were, by allowing individuals to list their sensory observations they encountered during a stimulus. The major disadvantage of the method was that each person has his own associations with every stimulus. For this reason, this method was later abolished,
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