Foundation
The founder of Structuralism
Who is Edward B. Titchener?
The examination of one’s conscious thoughts, feelings, mental state and mental processes
What is structuralism?
From Titchener’s view, the fundamental task of psychology was to discover the nature of these concepts
What are conscious experiences?
In Titchener’s experimentation, his introspectionists were accused of increased susceptibility to this psychological experimentation phenomenon
What is bias?
The first school of psychology
What is Structuralism?
Knowledge acquisition theory that states that knowledge is acquired through sensory experiences
What is empiricism?
As opposed to other sciences, in the field of psychology consciousness is ____ on the person who is experiencing it
What is dependent?
Two psychology specialty areas excluded by Titchener’s Structuralist principles
What are animal and child psychology?
This empiricist psychologist posited the mind as a “sum of an individual’s experiences accumulated over a lifetime.”
Who is Edward B. Titchener?
The following scenario—Seeing an apple and describing it as an apple, rather than reporting on its elements that are observed by the senses—demonstrates
What is stimulus error?
Elements of ideas found in the process that reflect experiences
What are images?
Critiques of introspection posited it as ____, a time elapsed between an experience and the reporting of the experience
What is retrospection?
The father of experimental psychology who established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Utilization of instruments to vary conditions and provide more precise results of one’s internal state and process
What is experimental introspection?
Experiences such as love, hate, and sadness, are best characterized by...
What are affections or affective states?
The result of observation by introspectionist in introspection introduces
What is a confounding variable?
In a German-to-English translation error, this word was inadvertently added to the English language.
What is empathy?
As established by Wilhelm Wundt, the process of organizing the mind into high-level processes, with emphasis placed on will, purpose, and choice
What is psychological voluntarism?
Attributes of mental elements established by Titchener
What are duration and clearness?
Two parts of the mind that structuralism requires itself to be broken down into
What is the part that observes and a part that is being observed?