The Collaborative International Dictionary
Introspectionist \In`tro*spec"tion*ist\, n. (Metaph.) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.
Wiktionary
n. (context metaphysics English) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomenon of the soul.
Usage examples of "introspectionist".
Upon the demise of the introspectionist movement in modern psychology in the early years of the twentieth century, behaviorism also adopted the principle of reductionism by studying the behavior of animals as a means to understanding human behavior.
However, the type of tedious, automatonlike, internal observation that was used in the introspectionist school was so boring and unfruitful that even James dissociated himself from such experimental research.
These early introspectionists, in their zeal to acquire objective, scientific knowledge of subjective mental states, treated their human subjects like primitive laboratory animals.