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what did Edward Bradford Titchener do?
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what did Edward Bradford Titchener do?
He presented a list of nearly 44,500 individual sensation qualities uncovered through his research & He envisioned structural psychology as a pure science with the legitimate purpose discovering the facts of the structure of the mind.
Functionalism
functionalism was a deliberate protest against Wundt's experimental psychology and Titchener's structural psychology. These were seen as too restrictive and couldn't answer the questions the functionalists were asking: what does the mind do? And how does it do it?
WAS NOT NEW WHAT WAS NEW ABOUT HIS WROK WAS HARD EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE THEORY
Darwin's overwhelming well organized data supporting the theory
Charles Darwin
Focus on animal psychology, comparative psychology & Focused on the description and measurement of individual differences
who believed that eminence (a word he used to describe greatness, genius, intelligence) was solely a function of heredity
Francis Galton
who founded the science of "eugenics" to promote selective breeding.
Francis Galton
He assumed that intelligence could be measured in terms of a persons sensory capacity (influenced by John Locke's empiricist view that all knowledge comes through the senses)
Francis Galton
who proposed that any large set of measurements or values for human characteristics could be meaningfully described by two numbers: the average value of the distribution (the arithmetic mean), and the dispersion or range of variation around the average value (the standard deviation).
Francis Galton
who purpose in this large-scale testing program was no less than the definition of the range of human capacities of the entire British population to determine its collective mental resources.
Francis Galton
A century later scientists analyzed who's data to found it to be statistically reliable.
Francis Galton
who found out that 40% of associations traced to events in childhood and adolescence?Francis Galtonwho believed the Validity of religious beliefs, Power of prayer, Hoped to provide a new set of beliefs structured in terms of scienceFrancis GaltonAdolph Queteletwas the first to use statistical methods and the normal curve of distribution with biological and social data.who used the Developed "mental ladder" and the anecdotal method?George Romanesthe Law of parsimony Wanted to make comparative psychology more scientificLloyd Morganin social Darwinism he argued that the development of ALL aspects of the universe are evolutionary, including human character and social institutions, in accordance with the principle of "survival of the fittest".Herbert SpencerAnimal Psychologyhuman emotion behavior expresses inherited behavior that was once useful to animals but is no longer relevant for humans.Work was flawed because of the anecdotal methodGeorge RomanesMake comparative psychology more scientific.Lloyd Morganuniverse operates in accord with principle of survival of the fittestHerbert spencerHabit- Repetitive or habitual actions become easier to perform and require less conscious attention and become involuntary and nonconscious.William JamesHe accepted both introspection and experimentationWilliam James"Stream of Consciousness" indicates that the changing nature of conscious to prevents its analyzes into mental elementsWilliam JamesPragmatism the doctrine that the validity of ideas is measured by their practical consequences.William JamesMaterial social and spiritual is the three piece self according to who?William JamesThe function of consciousness is to guide us to those ends required for survival; without it, human evolution could not have occurred.The Principles of PsychologyThe goal of psychology is to study living people as they adapt to their environment.The Principles of PsychologyJames reversed the order. He stated that the arousal of the physical response precedes the appearance of the emotion. Psychological arousal precedes the experience emotionTheory of EmotionVariability hypothesisBased on Darwin's finding that males showed a wider range of development of physical characteristics and abilities than femalesYou unique aspect of Wooley's work was the attribute of gender difference to social and environmental factorsHelen Bradford Thompson WooleyHer data refuted the "myth" as Woolley's on gender differenceLeta Stetter Hollingworthpsychology had to be the study of the total organism as it functions in its environmentJohn DeweyFunctionalism tries to answer why mental processes exist and how they aid survival.James Rowland Angel