PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Edward B. Titchener, Chronometry

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Dr Neil Fournier

Document Summary

Edward titchener: (1867-1927: english/oxford, ph. d. with wundt, new department of psychology at cornell, analytical introspection, a person carefully examines and reports their own experience, attributes of mental elements, quality, intensity, duration, clearness. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense: science is uncommon sense , requires us to override automatic, effortless, and intuitive modes of thinking with more con- trolled, effortful, and reflective modes of thinking. Key concepts: basic units that define each level of scientific discourse, chemistry, biology, physics, atom, cell, response, any movement or change in the organism that can be, indicated or pointed to, enumerated, determined inter-observer agreement, ex.