PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Applied Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Carl Stumpf
29 Mar 2017
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Chap 11: developments after the founding: systems (or schools, a system can be defined as an organized way of envisioning the world or some aspect of the world, psychological systems have the following characteristics: Systems provide definitions of psychology itself as well as major terms and concepts. Systems include assumptions about major issues such as free will and determinism, mind and brain, and nature and nurture. For example, in the laboratory, wundt studied elements of consciousness, but elements of consciousness are not the subject matter of psychology for psychoanalysis or behaviorism. A system may be open to new and multiple sources of information or closed, restricting or even censoring the flow of ideas. Some explore the past to understand the present, and others emphasize the present, and others the past (i. e. psychoanalysis). Wundt"s research perspective to the united states: in titchener"s structuralism, the subject matter of psychology is experience and is dependent on the experiencing person:
