PSYC 312 Chapter Notes -Psychology Today, Henry Maudsley, Immanuel Kant

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In titchener"s lab the graduate students were asked and urged to do and be a participants of weird and outrageous experiments in. Dramatically altered wundt"s system to what he called. Structuralism : prominent in united states and lasted some two decades. He focused on mental elements or contents and their mechanical linking through the process of association: he discarded wundt"s doctrine of apperception. Psychologies fundamental task was to discover the nature of the elementary conscious experiences: to analyze consciousness into its component parts and thus determine its structure. Were his oxford university academic gown to every class ( very dramatic entrance) Junior faculty required to attend all the lectures ( titchener very controlling ) Poor family , so relied on intellectual abilities to get scholarship to college. Studied philosophy, the classics and worked as a research assistance in physiology. Knew many languages: latin, greek, french, italian. Became interested in wundt"s psychology at oxford.

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