PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Johann Friedrich Herbart, Logical Positivism, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Timothy Racine

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Leahey article is part of assignment next week. Me(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s : positivism, logical positivism, empiricism, rationalism, wundt + titchener (w tries to explain experience, t tries to describe experience, critical history, new history being applied, traditional is critiqued. Arti(cid:272)le is a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) tit(cid:272)he(cid:374)er is i(cid:374)terpreti(cid:374)g/usi(cid:374)g wu(cid:374)dt"s ideas (cid:894)tit(cid:272)he(cid:374)er has a rll(cid:455) differe(cid:374)t perspective from wundt) Titchener completely changes wundt"s ideas, he"s trying to describe experience (wundt tries to explain) Titchener is the father of the first school of psyc, structuralism | functionalism, william james is grandfather of. Creation myth/traditional and new history = written question? creation myth = idea that wundt started psychology/is 1st psychologist. he trained everyone that did psychology at the time in europe. pre-psychology = people not psychologists, they are physiologists really. Jf is important in psyc history, jf replaces kant (cuz kant said, well we can"t rly have psychology cuz we can"t study things in inner world/temporally organised/doesn"t matter)