PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Franz Brentano, Wilhelm Wundt, Music Perception
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Wilhelm wundt will bring new research techniques to field reaction time, He also brings about the rst school of psychology, which is voluntarism. He will use the technique of introspection to further analyze conscious experience. Edward titchner will attempt to bring wundt"s work to america. He will change a great deal in voluntarism and it becomes structuralism. Structuralism: describe the structure of the mind. Psychology in germany was ourishing due to research in universities due to the labs and universities being well-funded. Wilhelm wundt is seen as the founding father of modern psychology. This is because he intentionally and deliberately promoted the eld of psychology. He completed his postdoctoral training with herman von helmhotz. He supported himself and his work by writing textbooks. For wundt, promoting the eld of psychology meant promoting it as a scienti c discipline. He disagreed with anyone with suggested that psychology cannot be considered a science or that it could not be studied experimentally.
