PY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Associationism, American Psychologist, Reductionism
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Moral and mental philosophy: modeled on british universities. Scottish faculty psychology: university boom from immigration, blend of scottish associationism and commonsense philosophy (realism, rejected skepticism of empiricists. Innate faculties rather than blank mind: perception, memory, association, attention, and consciousness. Transition to empirical science: break from theology and philosophy laboratory research, william james, g. s. hall, e. b. titchener. Functionalism: understanding how the mind and behavior adapts to the environment, uses informative methods, combination of science, concern for application, and individual differences. William james: first american psychologist, eclectic interests influenced by german psych, evolution, scottish philosophy, pragmatism. Habits: new patterns formed through repetition, govern most of human behavior, adaptive and functional. Edward titchener: founded first school of psychology, structuralism: discovery and catalog basic elements of mind by lab methods, reje(cid:272)ted (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) of wu(cid:374)dt"s ideas, modified introspection. Tit(cid:272)he(cid:374)er"s ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of co(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess: consciousness, sensations, affections. Images: each has four attributes, quality, intensity, duration, clearness.
