Abnormal psychology is a division of psychology that studies people who are "abnormal" or "atypical" compared to the members of a

.

The definition of the word abnormal is simple enough but applying this to psychology poses a complex problem: what is

?

? Whose

? For what

? for what culture?

Behavior is the result of stimulus-

no matter how

Wundt established the first laboratory in the world dedicated to

experimental

psychology for those with a serious interest in psychology.

Before the 1800, Psychology was seen as a

. When, Immanuel Kant claimed that psychology had no

as an academic discipline because he saw

as impossible to study

, Wundt established the lab that cemented psychology's identity as a

. Weber's breakthrough (about if were already holding rocks then there's a specific

by which the

of that pile would need to be increased before you would notice the change in

)Wundt believed that this approach could be applied to experimental psychology.

This is the branch of psychology that seeks to study the

through

experiments.

introspection is the examination or observation of one's own

and

processes.

Also known as experimental self-

, Wundt's technique involved

people to carefully and

as possible analyze the

of their own thoughts.

In Wundt's lab, highly trained

were presented with carefully controlled

events. These individuals were then asked to describe their

experiences of these events. Wundt believed that the observers needed to be in a

of high

to the stimulus and in

of the situation.

Wundt believed that there were two key components that make up the contents of the human mind:

and feelings and to understand the mind, he believed that researchers needed to do more than simply identify the

or

of the mind.

Structuralism focused on breaking down

processes into the most basic

. Researchers tried to

the basic elements of

using a method known as

.

Wilhelm Wundt, founder of the first psychology lab, is often associated with this school of

despite the fact that it was his student, Edward B.

who first coined the term to

this school of thought.