PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wilhelm Wundt, Phycology, Experimental Psychology

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Dr. Roberts

Document Summary

An idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. Background: born in germany on august 16, 1832 died august 31, 1920, earned a medical degree at the university of heidelberg, later was a professor at the university of heidelberg, psychologist, philosopher and linguist. Written work: contributions to the theory of sensory perception, principles of physiological psychology, philosophical studies, often referred to as the father of experimental psychology and the founder of. Main ideas: believed that scientific phycology should focus on analyzing consciousness, focused on breaking consciousness down into elemental sensations and feelings, structuralism the analysis of the basic element that constitute the mind. Introspection allowed him to analyze the constituents of the mind.