PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Edward B. Titchener, Maurice Ravel, Experimental Psychology
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He tries to discover, first of all, what ist here for. [wr, 223: note his use of questionnaires as data collection tools. Dismissed as unreliable science by some others (i. e. titchener: wundt used introspection. To focus on what was in your conscious mind: structuralism is simply uncovering the contents on mind. He and james disagreed (wouldn"t be friends: why did he want structuralism approach to be primary. Structuralism approach is like understanding the anatomy of the human. Experimentalists (1927) body: formed in retaliation to the apa, only contained men. This is him bringing his bias into science. Unscientific because it is not objective and science is supposed to: ladd-franklin to titchner be part of the public domain. So unconscientious, so immoral worse than that so unscientific! (1914: titchner to a colleague: I am not sure that we had better not disintegrate!