PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mendelian Inheritance, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt
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Wilhelm wundt & voluntarism: questioned experience, immediate, conscious, belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements. Understand how the simplest elements of structure of conscious experience combine to create more complex perceptions and behavior. 1- structuralism 101 (titchener- student of wundt continues the tradition) Lots of criticism- not objective, (stimulus stays the same but reported experience could change, changes within and across people. ) Example: each of our definitions of fullness ( after a meal) are different. (issue) Two schools of thoughts do not disproof each other, rather, they add to one another. Focus not on structure of consciousness but with how mental processes function. Scope of psychology increases i includes behavior (as well as mental processes) These groups excluded because couldn"t be trained to do introspection. Functionalists proposed that the mind was shaped by natural selection; modern evolutionary psychology is one descendant of james" ideas.
