Concepts
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
Franz Brentano
Odds and Ends
100
The process by which mental elements are organized
What is Apperception?
100
A 10-volume work by Wundt in which he discusses “language, art, myths, social customs, law, and morals
What is Cultural Psychology?
100
This occurs when an introspective observer confuses the mental process under study with the stimulus or object being observed.
What is stimulus error?
100
Brentano’s system, so named because of his focus on mental activities rather than mental elements.
What is Act Psychology?
100
The three elementary states of consciousness.
What are sensations, images and affective states??
200
The “examination of one’s own mental state.”
What is Introspection?
200
For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology was ____.
What is consciousness?
200
Wundt's focus was on ____, whereas Titchener's was on ____.
What are synthesis of elements; analysis of elements?
200
Brentamo's approach was a precursor to these two later schools of thought.
What are Gestalt and Humanistic Psychology?
200
"Detailed, qualitative, subjective reports of his subjects’ mental activities" is to "a “focus on objective, quantitative measurements, as __________ is to ___________.
What is Titchner is to Wundt?
300
The school of psychology most associated with Titchener, whereby conscious experience is dissected using introspection.
What is Structuralism?
300
Wundt argued that cognitive processes such as learning and memory could not be studied by experimental methods because ____.
What is they were influenced by language and aspects thereof?
300
Titchener opposed the development of areas such as child psychology and animal psychology because ____.
What is these areas did not focus on discovering the structures of mind?
300
Wundt is to experimental as Brentano is to_______.
What is empirical?
300
The phenomenological approach.
What is experience just as it occurs, without analysis?
400
The sum of our experiences as they exist at a given moment in time.
What is Consciousness?
400
These are aroused whenever a sense organ is stimulated.”
What are sensations?
400
A century before Titchener's work the philosopher ____ wrote that the act of introspection itself altered the conscious experience being studied..
Who is Kant?
400
Brentano argued that psychology should not “study the content of conscious experience,” as Wundt proposed, but should study ____.
What are the actions of consciousness (which he termed Act psychology?
400
Existential psychology.
What did Titchner consider replacing of introspection with?
500
Titchener's concept of mind.
What is the sum of our experiences accumulated over a lifetime?
500
Feelings
What are the subjective complements of sensations but do not arise directly from a sense organ.”
500
The two most important contributions of Titchener's system to modern psychology are ____.
What are his experimental method and a strong position to protest?
500
The reason Brentano resigned his professorship.
What is the Vatican's official acceptance of Papal Infallibility.
500
Margaret Floy Washburn
Who was the 1st women to earn doctorate in psychology and Titchener’s 1st doctoral student?
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