Divide conscious experience into its two most basic elements

Determine the composite form of an element. After analyzing conscious experience into elements, he did not ignore the reality of consciousness. He tried to explain the holistic characteristics of consciousness through concepts such as association and apperception.

Find the rules of compounding of elements

Make psychology an independent discipline

Cultivated a large number of psychological talents and promoted the development of psychology

Changed the traditional introspection method into experimental introspection method, thus making empirical psychology become experimental psychology

Substituting experience for objective phenomena and treating the natural phenomena in natural science research as subjective experience commits the error of subjective idealism.

There is no complete break away from the traditional introspection method

Wundt’s theoretical system is complex and confusing

The "Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve" of Keeping and Forgetting

The longer time passes after learning, the less you retain and the more you forget.

The law of forgetting is not balanced, first fast and then slow

For the first time, experimental methods were used to study the memory of advanced mental activities, and quantitative analysis of memory was conducted.

The law of retention and forgetting was discovered for the first time, providing a scientific basis for drawing the forgetting curve.

Using experimental and statistical methods, we conducted a relatively in-depth analysis of the process and conditions for forming associations as well as certain practice rules.

A quantitative analysis was made of the development of memory processes, but not of changes in the nature of memory content.

Meaningless syllables are divorced from reality and do not consider the initiative of memory

Use yourself as the subject, proactive inhibition and retroactive inhibition, knowing that the purpose of the experiment affects the experimental results