CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Psychological Association, Mary Whiton Calkins, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ben Wormwood

Document Summary

Sotd: even a dog can shake hands warren zevon. Edward titchener (1867-1927: introduces structuralism to the u. s, created list of more than 44,000 elemental qualities of conscious experience, most visual or auditory, no way to make distinctions and to correlate experiences to the same parts. Functionalism of the brain: the study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment, inspired by charles darwin"s book, on the origin of species by means of natural. Selection (1859: studies how an organism adapts to the environment by observing how said organism functions within its environment, evolutionary psychology. William james (1842-1910: taught first american course in psychology, authored the principles of psychology, it is literature, it is beautiful, but it is not psychology. , wilhelm wundt on the book. G. stanley hall (1844-1924: studied under wundt and james, established first north american psychology laboratory, co-founder and first president of the american psychological association (apa)