PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Edward B. Titchener, Psychophysical Parallelism, Wilhelm Wundt
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Went to leipzig to study with wundt and later established a psychological lab in cornell university. His work is similar to wundt"s experimental psych, but the complexity of wundt"s approach to psych was lost in titchener"s much simpler approach. He distinguished psych from other disciplines in terms of the different points of view taken. Introspection- the process by which individuals describe their experience. Human experience is embodied in the sense that it cannot exist apart from someone"s nervous system; however titchener did not reduce human experience to events in the nervous system. Titchener believed psychology to be generalized human mind by means of experimental introspection. By generalized" he meant that psych was to develop principles that were true of all minds, not just some minds. Although he acknowledged that many interesting cases of unusual mental processes occur, these were not to be used to form the basis of psychology.
