History and Systems of Psychology Lecture 4
ED PS 7080 September 11, 2010
Instructor: Robert Hill, Ph.D.
Class Assignment: Pick you favorite FAILURE in psychology (10 min each)
(flower image = pleasant smell) – categorize smell valence and images
Explain workings of the mind as a complex interconnecting elemental phenomenon
Titchener versus Wundt
psychology?
Name two phenomenon in psychophysiology that Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) investigated. For each, describe an example of his method and what he found?
Titchener more restrictive and inflexible
View of investigation = without philosophy or value (the soul is out)
Titchener rejected Wundt’s attempts to explain the operation of the mind
Titchener rejected broader view of apperception