Edward B Titchener Research Paper
Structuralism
Tierra Axom
Brewton-Parker College
478-733-0108
Abstract
Structuralism
• Definition: The system in which psychologists used introspection to try to find the basic elements of adult, human consciousness.
• The study of the elements of consciousness.
• The structure of the mind
• Major Structuralist Thinkers:
1. Wilhelm Wundt
2. Edward B Titchener
Born in the Roman established town of Chichester, South of England
Not wealthy
His father fought with the Confederate Army, returned to England, married, and died while in his 30s.
Titchener’s intellectual gifts earned him scholarships first to Malvern College and then to Oxford. …show more content…
Countless of people considered Titchener as a male chauvinist, but that statement is weird to others; because most of his doctorate students are females. For example, he helped a student by the name of Celestia Suzannah Parrish learn about the new experimental psychology. Parrish established the first psychology in the south at R-MWC in Lynchburg, Virginia. She also published in psychology based on the work she did at Cornell. She after she moved from R-MWC to the chair in psychology and pedagogy at the State Normal School.
Titchener is also the founder of the Experimentalists; and informal club of psychology laboratory directors. Within this club, the members were to meet annually to discuss their research with each other and with their most promising graduate students.
To help those who were always traveling from German to America, Titchener published a German-English dictionary of psychological terms.
Titchener thought of psychology as the science of the generalized, normal, human, and adult mind.
He really did not care for the abnormal minds, animals’ minds, minds of the children, or individual minds; but he was interested in the mind of an idealized
Tierra Axom
Brewton-Parker College
478-733-0108
Abstract
Structuralism
• Definition: The system in which psychologists used introspection to try to find the basic elements of adult, human consciousness.
• The study of the elements of consciousness.
• The structure of the mind
• Major Structuralist Thinkers:
1. Wilhelm Wundt
2. Edward B Titchener
Born in the Roman established town of Chichester, South of England
Not wealthy
His father fought with the Confederate Army, returned to England, married, and died while in his 30s.
Titchener’s intellectual gifts earned him scholarships first to Malvern College and then to Oxford. …show more content…
Countless of people considered Titchener as a male chauvinist, but that statement is weird to others; because most of his doctorate students are females. For example, he helped a student by the name of Celestia Suzannah Parrish learn about the new experimental psychology. Parrish established the first psychology in the south at R-MWC in Lynchburg, Virginia. She also published in psychology based on the work she did at Cornell. She after she moved from R-MWC to the chair in psychology and pedagogy at the State Normal School.
Titchener is also the founder of the Experimentalists; and informal club of psychology laboratory directors. Within this club, the members were to meet annually to discuss their research with each other and with their most promising graduate students.
To help those who were always traveling from German to America, Titchener published a German-English dictionary of psychological terms.
Titchener thought of psychology as the science of the generalized, normal, human, and adult mind.
He really did not care for the abnormal minds, animals’ minds, minds of the children, or individual minds; but he was interested in the mind of an idealized