PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Associationism
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Studied through analysis of the products of social relations language, myths and customs. The w rzburg school : rival school of psychology in germany, established by leipzig alumnus, oswald k lpe. They were opposed to: wundt"s theory of language, wundt"s philosophy of science. Wundt @ leipzig: one-dimensional; objective, mere reversal by listener, content is key, has psychophysical component gestures, words etc. Inference and connotation : content and style are key, no psychophysical parallelism you can have a thought in your head, but you can control yourself enough not to say it. Or you can blurt something when you were not aware it was even in your consciousness. Wundt @ leipzig: language cannot be studied quantitatively in the lab. K lpe @ w rzberg: language and complex mental processes can be studied using systematic experimental introspection, wundt is too simplistic. German institution that opposed wilhelm wundt and the leipzig school. More to the school than critiques of wundt.
