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Jeel Christine C. de Egurrola
Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
German physiologist who was trained in medicine.
Specialized in the scientific study of human consciousness.
Established the first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879.
Invented his own laboratory equipments
Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
Tachistoscopes, chronoscopes, electrical stimulators, pendulums, timers and sensory mapping devices.
In 1879 he began experiments that were not part of his teaching – he marks this as the beginning of his lab
Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
Often identified as “the world’s first true psychologist” and the “Founder of Psychology.”
Also identified as the “Father of Experimental Psychology”
Wundt with his lab research assistants
Wundt's aim was to record thoughts and sensations, and to analyze them into their constituent elements
Wundt founded voluntarism, the processing of organizing the mind
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During his academic career Wundt trained 186 graduate students (116 in psychology).
Edward Titchener, who described his system as Structuralism, or the analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind.
Structuralism had its roots in earlier work in physiology.
Scientists there (e.g. Gustav Fechner) had found success in studying sensory perception by manipulating stimuli and having subjects report back their experience.
Wundt adopted this general approach for his new science
Structuralism
Wundt defined psychology as the study of the structure of conscious experience.
The goal was to find the 'atoms' of conscious experience, and from there to build a knowledge of how the atoms combine to create our experience.
Wundt hoped to thus emulate the success of the natural sciences
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As psychology was defined as the study of experience, and as an outside observer cannot gather information on subjective experience,
Wundt turned to introspection (experimental self-
observation) as the tool for gathering data.
Researchers were trained with specific criteria for becoming skilled introspectors.
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Structuralism
Structuralism was the study of the most basic elements, that make up our conscious mental processes.
Elements of the Mind:
Sensations
Perceptions
Structuralism
Sensations are relatively meaningless bits of information that result when the brain processes electrical signals that come from the sense organs
Perceptions are meaningful sensory expreriencesthat results after the brain combines hundreds of sensations.
William James (1842-1910)
Functionalism
American pragmatist and Psychologist
Went to Germany and met Wundt and Helmholtz
Brought Functionalism in the US
First American psychologist
Father of American Psychology
Functionalism
William James (1842-1910)
Wrote the first general text book on psychology, The Principles of Psychology (1890)
He moved from psychology to philosophy.
He took a strong individualistic perspective rooted in individual experience.
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William James (1842-1910)
He argued forcibly against the structuralist position that conscious can be broken into constituent parts.
Coining the phrase 'stream of consciousness', James proposed that mental life is a unity that flows and changes.
Consciousness is a continuum
Functionalism
William James (1842-1910)
In Principles of Psychology he presented illuminating ideas concerning consciousness, attention, memory, habits, and emotions.
Emotions are caused by physiological changes
Functionalism
Psychology is the study of mental activity (e.g. perception, memory, imagination, feeling, judgment).
Mental activity is to be evaluated in terms of how it serves the organism in adapting to its environment.
Focuses on the functions of the mind
Study of how a mental process operates.
Study of how the mental process functions in the evolution of the species, what adaptive property it provides that would cause it to be selected through evolution.
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Mental acts can be studied through introspection, the use of instruments to record and measure
Objective manifestations of mind, through the study of its creations and products
And through the study of anatomy and physiology.
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Functionalism was the study of the function rather than the structure of consciousness, was interested in how the minds adapt to our changing environment
Attention, Memory, and Emotion
Book
Macapagal, M.E.J. (2007). General Psychology for Filipino College Students. Manila, Ph: Ateneo University Press.
Mangal, S.K. (2013). General Psychology. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Plotnik, R. & Kouyoumdjian, H. (2011). Introduction to Psychology. (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Internet
University of Utah Department of Psychology. (n.d.). Wilhelm Wundt and Structuralism. In: A Brief History of Psychology. Retrieved from: http://www.psych.utah.edu/gordon/Classes/Psy4905Docs/PsychHistory/Cards/Wundt.html
University of Utah Department of Psychology. (n.d.). William James and Functionalism. In: A Brief History of Psychology. Retrieved from: http://www.psych.utah.edu/gordon/Classes/Psy4905Docs/PsychHistory/Cards/James.html
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