PSY 4130 Lecture 4: Chapter 9
13 Feb 2017
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Be familiar with the voluntarism of wundt. Be acquainted with wundt"s work and research. Be familiar with titchener"s work and research. Be acquainted with the research of other early german psychologists. The name that wundt gave to his approach to psychology was voluntarism because of its emphasis on will, choice, and purpose. Voluntarism was psychology"s first school (not structuralism, as is often claimed). Considered one of the founders of psychology. A school can be defined as a group of individuals who share common assumptions, work on common problems, and use common methods. (similar to kuhn"s paradigm. ) This school was called voluntarism: wundt"s complication pendulum (thought meter): Studied perception, reaction times etc: in 1881 he founded the first journal of experimental psychology called philosophical studies (as psychological studies was taken) Two types of experience: mediate experience and data are obtained via measuring devices and thus is not direct, immediate experience and data are events in human consciousness as they occurred.
