PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Carl Stumpf

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Edward bradford titchener (1867-1927): (titchener was a student of wundt) Titchener"s version of wundt ; he agreed with wundt that we should study immediate experience that is consciousness, the sum total of experience at any given moment and mind as the accumulated experiences of a lifetime. Ttitcherner"s psychological system; science is what can be observed via introspection of conscious events. The goal of structuralism as describing the is of mental life; he was willing to leave the is for, for other ponder. Subject matter of psychology: conscious experience, dependent on experiencing persons, stimulus error; letting past experience influence an introspective report, consciousness, mind, pure experience. Aim is the same as for natural science. Three elementary states of consciousness: sensations, images, affective states. Characteristics of mental elements: quality, intensity, duration, clearness. The study of mental acts act psychology; his views came to be called act psychology because of his belief that mental processes are aimed at performing some function.