PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mary Whiton Calkins, Wilhelm Wundt, Apperception
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Societal and scientific conflict: health problems due to urbanization gave rise to natural science, universities were funded to find solutions for these health problems, society wanted an explanation that went beyond scientism research boom. Institutionalization of psychology: germany, psychologists were trained as philosophers, wundt- influenced research, experimental ideology. First european lab: muller- psychophysics, perception, colour vision and memory, british, darwin- theory of evolution was extremely influential, struggle for institutional support. Lacked infrastructure: the first experimental psychologists was an md w. h rivers, french, were based on philosophical, spiritual and theological perspectives known as spiritualism, experimented with neurosis benard and cherot, psychoanalytic basis, theodule ribot- est. Psychopathology: alfred binet, russian, reflexology, us, mediated between science and religion, initially focused on deriving general laws of mental organization via, thondike law of effect- education, titchener laid the experiment foundation for experimentation in the introspection.
