PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Cognitive Revolution
16 Apr 2015
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Our self concept depends on our knowledge. Our emotional adjustments to the world, we rely on memory. Our ability to understand experiences depends on knowledge. The years of introspection: wilhelm wundt and edward bradford titchener defined their field for the first time as an endeavour separate from philosophy or biology. Viewed that psychology needed to be concerned largely with the study of conscious mental events; feelings, thoughts, perceptions and recollections. The process through which you look within to observe and record the contents of your own mental life: this style of research was influential for several years, but psychology gradually became disenchanted with it. Investigators soon acknowledged that some thoughts are unconscious, thus it was limited as a research tool. Introspection then is the study of conscious experiences: unconscious though plays a huge part in our mental lives, with introspection the testability of claims is often unattainable.
