PSYC 2700 Chapter Notes -Out-Of-Body Experience, Tabula Rasa, Edward B. Titchener
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First philosopher to have advocated an empirically based, natural science approach to understand. Proposed that sensations, images and ideas become associated through similarities and differences (contrast), and by virtue of occurring close together in time (contiguity) Many early psychologists were students of wundt (including james & titchener) Accredited with starting the only true scientific revolution in psychology . Volkerpsychologie psychology of the people, was shut down by many. Focused on conscious processes and immediate experience. Introspection: a method in which one looks carefully inward, reporting on inner sensations and experiences. Focused on introspection; therefore things such as mental illness, educational applications and social psych were impure, as they could not be studied with introspective methods. Stimulus error: describing the physical stimulus rather than the mental experience of that stimulus. Structuralism: the structure of the conscious mind, the sensations, images and feelings that were the very elements of the mind"s structure. Titchener would decide which theories and such would be approved.