PSYC85H3 Chapter 8: Structure or Function.pdf
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Period during which psychology was established in universities. Ww1 provided for first mass testing of recruits by means of intelligence tests, which was central to psychology. Also evolution on mental functions meant study of animals became important in discipline. Established a psychological laboratory at cornell university. Work similar to wundt"s experimental psychology as he was his disciple. Unsympathetic to psychological explanations that invoked concepts like the unconscious". The sum total of human experience considered dependent upon a nervous system. Human experience is embodied in the sense that it cannot exist apart from someone"s nervous system. According to titchener, events in the nervous system run parallel to those in human experience but should not be seen as causing them. He used the analogy of the what the nervous system bears the same relation to our mental processes as a map does to our experiences of our journey.
