Titchener Vs Wundt Essay
Compare and contrast Titchener's and Wundt's approaches to psychology. This should be 1-2 pages. Do not use any quotes in your essay.
Being that Edward Bradford Titchener was a student of Wundt's for two years, he was a loyal follower of his professor. Titchener resembled Wundt by having similar beards, the same authoritative style, and similar formal lecture manners. But when Titchener came from Germany to America, he dramatically altered Wundt's system of psychology. Titchener’s approach to psychology was called structuralism. Wundt’s focus was more on the elements or contents of the consciousness. Titchener claimed that his approach was set fourth by Wundt's approach but the two systems were very different. Titchener’s approach to psychology was prominent in America and it lasted …show more content…
He felt that psychology’s fundamental task should discover the nature of elementary conscious experiences. He wanted to analyze the component parts of consciousness to determine its structures(pg88). Titchener built his system of structuralism by supervising more than fifty doctoral candidates in psychology whilst selecting research problems for his students and selecting topics he was interested in(pg89). Moreover, both Wundt and Titchener used introspection to discover mental elements of the human experience. They both believed that classifying and identifying feelings and sensations was an important part of understanding human experiences. Titchener believed that images were part of mental elements but Wundt disagreed. Wundt and Titchener both used experimental approaches with their work. Wundt felt that psychology couldn't be only studied as an experimental science but it should also be studied through historical analyses and natural observation. Tichener felt that psychology could only be studied through evidence based methods in the laboratory. Wundt felt that physical events were explained by antecedent events, and that higher psychological
Being that Edward Bradford Titchener was a student of Wundt's for two years, he was a loyal follower of his professor. Titchener resembled Wundt by having similar beards, the same authoritative style, and similar formal lecture manners. But when Titchener came from Germany to America, he dramatically altered Wundt's system of psychology. Titchener’s approach to psychology was called structuralism. Wundt’s focus was more on the elements or contents of the consciousness. Titchener claimed that his approach was set fourth by Wundt's approach but the two systems were very different. Titchener’s approach to psychology was prominent in America and it lasted …show more content…
He felt that psychology’s fundamental task should discover the nature of elementary conscious experiences. He wanted to analyze the component parts of consciousness to determine its structures(pg88). Titchener built his system of structuralism by supervising more than fifty doctoral candidates in psychology whilst selecting research problems for his students and selecting topics he was interested in(pg89). Moreover, both Wundt and Titchener used introspection to discover mental elements of the human experience. They both believed that classifying and identifying feelings and sensations was an important part of understanding human experiences. Titchener believed that images were part of mental elements but Wundt disagreed. Wundt and Titchener both used experimental approaches with their work. Wundt felt that psychology couldn't be only studied as an experimental science but it should also be studied through historical analyses and natural observation. Tichener felt that psychology could only be studied through evidence based methods in the laboratory. Wundt felt that physical events were explained by antecedent events, and that higher psychological