PSYC 4008 Chapter : FINAL EXAM CHAPTER 7
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Structuralism- type of psychology that originates in germany with wundt. Name of it originates with titchener (he named both structuralism and functionalism). Difference for titchener- we are supposed to uncover what the mind is made of. Important factor is operations of the mind (functions of the mind). Wanted to study all kinds of things about mind and then wanted to use them all. Very dominating personality; very forceful, confident, pig-headed. First translated his entire textbook while in masters program at. After masters, there was no source of training for this psychology in britain allowed him to construct a movement that was powerfully influential and was implemented well. Lots of people trained to be structural psychologists. Very proficient in language, classics, won a mathematics prize. Became focused on philosophy and from that, psychology. Oxford was the new physiological psychology that wundt had come up with. He dedicated himself to the movement. so he went to leipzig.
