PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Cognitive Revolution, Behaviorism
12 Sep 2013
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In the late 19th century, scholars wilhelm and wundt and his student. Edward bradford titchener launched the new enterprise of research psychology, defining their field for the first time as an endeaver separate from philosophy or biology. The concluded that the only way to study thoughts is for each of us to introspect, or look within , to observe and record the content of our own mental lives and the sequence of our own experiences. As one concern, these investigators were soon forced to acknowledge that some thoughts are unconscious, and this meant that introspection, by uts nature, is the study of conscious experiences and so can tell us nothing about unconscious events. Also, in order for any science to proceed, there must be some way to test its claims; otherwise, we have no means of separating correct assertions from false ones, accurate descriptions of the world from fictions. With introspection, this testability of claims is often unattainable.
