PSYB57H3 Chapter 8: C 85 Ch8
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Introspection: the process by which individuals describe their experience. Thus, all parts of titchener"s approach to psychology look to be controversial contribution to psychology. Aimed to uncover the elementary structure of mind. In his first phase, titchener tries to differentiate b/n a structural and a functional psychology: analogy to biology: First attempt to understand the function of organs. After understanding anatomy, we may then turn to physiology for an understanding of the function of organs. A functional psychology should be postponed until we have a solid structural basis for psychology. Ideas were believed always to be accompanied by images: believed that affection was the elementary process underlying. Simplified the affective dimensions into just one, pleasant- emotion unpleasant. Experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice: a psychological experiment consists an introspection or a series of introspections made under standard conditions, a good terminology should be absolutely transparent, letting the facts be seen thru the words.
