HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Psychophysics, John Stuart Mill, James Sully
15 Dec 2020
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Ribot was convinced that the uk would take the lead in establishing psychology as an academic discipline the uk wasn"t able to capitalise on its lead because of the organisation of universities and resistance of the established disciplines. The university of oxford is the oldest in the uk; as a result of friction between masters and inhabitants, a number of masters fled to cambridge in 1209. Cambridge were the only universities in the uk: Dominated first by rcc then the church of england. No natural sciences scientific research happened outside of universities: well-off individual paid scholars, societies w/ fees, small-scale institutes and centres. Attempts at establishing psychology at cambridge and oxford. James mckeen cattell (1860-1944) was offered the position of lecturer at cambridge by. He had a phd on mental testing in. He found the university of cambridge less accommodating than he hoped and left in 1888 to pennsylvania to become professor in psychophysics.
