CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Mental Chronometry

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ben Wormwood

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Cas ps101 lecture 3 beginnings of psychology part 2. Reaction time experiments began to illustrate the differences between sensation and perception: edward titchener (1867 1927) Introduced structuralism to the united states: created an exhaustive list of more than 44,000 elemental qualities of conscious experience, most visual or auditory. However, structuralism soon faded due to the lack of replicable observations and criticisms from other schools of thought. I(cid:374)spi(cid:396)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) cha(cid:396)les da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s (1809-1882) work, on the origin of species by means of. Natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859), James developed functionalism, the study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment. Alfred russell wallace was conducting, and even publishing, very similar research at the same time, and even collaborating with. If you infer if there is a change in behavior, there is a change in stimulus: the black box is everything that occurs in the mind.