FASH 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Experimental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
17 Aug 2020
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Chapter 5): synthesis: in reaction to the limited research agenda and the theoretical bank- ruptcy of behaviourism, the. Cognitive revolution", in turn, restored the mind as the proper subject of psychology (but now with the benefit of the rigorous experi- mental methods developed within behaviourism) Book- establishing psychology as an indepen dent academic discipline. In germany at the time the university system was reformed: before that universities had dismissed science as secondary and didn"t finance it. Darwin"s evolutionary theory: precise contents of the mind/structure were unimportant, he was focused on what the mind did (especially its" function for survival) = functionalism, comparative psychology emerged then= comparison of abilities between different species. If we want to measure physiological functions of mental states (comte), then mental states have to exist and they can only be found by introspection. Introspection has to be combined with empirical observation and verification.
