PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology, Relate
23 Oct 2018
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Chapter 9: voluntarism, structuralism, early approaches to psychology (exam notes) 1. Investigating : sensation and perception attention reaction association. After wudnt creation of other schools and ideas but as a reaction to his system. Finding a school is a deliberate intentional act. Personal abilities that are different from being a scientific scholar. Usually brilliant scientist are not also good at founding . Looking at we have these things and integrate them together. Important to have a journal and publish results. Needs graduate students to train and go to there universities and spread ideas. Wundt is getting most of the credit. Fechner wasn"t trying to find a new science - just looking at relations. Goals was to understand the quantitative relationship between mental and material world. Wundt deliberately looking to develop the school of psychology. Nature of finding the school of psychology is different from doing. Wundt is more popular for popularization and founding not so much research good quality research.
