PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Auguste Comte, Margaret Floy Washburn, Edward B. Titchener

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Dramatically altered wundt"s system of psychology when he brought it from germany to the us. He offered his own approach which he called structuralism. Titchener focused on mental elements or contents, and their mechanical linking through the process of association, but he discarded wundt"s doctrine of apperception. His work concentrated on the elements themselves. In his view, psychology"s fundamental task was to discover the nature of the elementary conscious experiences to analyze consciousness into its component parts and thus determine its structure. He translated wundt"s books from german into english. No women were allowed because titchener wanted oral reports that could be interrupted, dissented from, and criticized in a smoke-filed room with no women present. After lucy may boring said something about not allowing girls. Although titchener continued to exclude women from the experimentalists" meetings, he encouraged and supported their advancement in psychology. More than 1/3 of the 56 doctorates titchener awarded were to women.

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