PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward B. Titchener, Knowledge Mobilization, Hindsight Bias
11 Dec 2016
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About understanding how mental processes and behavior are shaped by experienced by using a scientific approach. Difficult to study, simple explanations are far and few. Complex which is why we use scientific approach. Aristotle asked questions to understand the relationship between the body and psyche: whatever that was influencing our actions was caused by something within the frame of our body. Wilhelm wundt added two key elements: carefully measured observations, experiments (pay attention to little details) Titchener also relied on self-report data and introspection: he had people report on sensations and other elements of experience, in reaction to stimuli, used these reports to build a view of the mind"s structure (called this structuralism) In the end: searched for causes of mental processes and behavior. Introspection was unreliable our perceptions of our environment, others, and ourselves is not reliable although we believe it is: thus, the scientific approach emerged even more important when it involves our own subjective experiences.
