PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wilhelm Wundt, Dualism, Carl Wernicke

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Jack Martin

Document Summary

Story 1: wilhelm wundt and the ofunding of scientific. By the mid-1800s in germany, psychophysics had developed to the point where it was becoming clear that psychological experience could not be mapped directly and unproblematically onto the physical and biological conditions in which it occurred. Wilhelm wundt"s experimental psychology demonstrated important differences between physical and psychological science his cultural psychology assumed the limitations of the latter with respect to the experimental study of higher mental processes. To differing extents, wundt"s most famous contemporaries agreed and disagreed with wundt"s conclusions concerning psychological science. Ebbinghaus, in particular, demonstrated that higher mental processes, such as memory, could be studied in experimental ways especially if steps were taken to eliminate obvious effects of culture, including those related to the meaningfulness of ordinary language. By the end of the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s, german psychology was established as a distinctive and increasingly credible, independent scientific discipline.