PSYC 4008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harvey A. Carr, Kurt Lewin, Kurt Koffka
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Differences in mental and behavioral capacities and their adaptive significance: he thought understanding the structure was a pre-requisite to understanding function. Titchener"s introspection: wundt believed that introspection must be limited to immediate experience, and that its impossible to have an experience and think about it at the same time, to avoid this problem, he proposed 3 solutions. Introspective habit: highly developed introspective skills acquired through practice, he thought it was possible to train introspectors so that introspection became automatic. His elements of mental experience: through introspection, he identified 3 elements of mind. Attributes: quality (experience of red verse blue, duration, Affects: elements of emotion (pleasant and unpleasant) The problem with titchener (very narrow scope: he was interested in the generalized adult mind, revealed through highly trained introspection in a controlled laboratory setting, which included: Individual differences, children, animals, psychopathology and applied psychology: introspection. His results could not be replicated by others.
