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How could different personal equations be explained according to Wundt?
Individual differences in lenghts of the sensory and motor nerves or in the speed with which those nerves transmit impulses
Which topics did Wundt's Contribution to the theory of sensory perception cover?
Vision, unconscious inference and reaction time.
What is Völkerpsychologie?
A type of nonexperimental psychology that deals with the communal and cultural products of human nature
What were the most important statements in Principles of Psychology?
Wundt defined a new domain of science, he conjoined psychology and physiology. And he provided detailed examples of how this could be accomplished.
What three general areas did Wundt study in his laboratory in Leipzig and what do they mean?
1. Psychophysical studies: Fechner's Law
2. Studies of the time sense: amount of time stimuli had to be seperated to be recognized as distinct
3. Mental chronometry: substraction method
How did Wundt define perception and apperception?
Perception: responding to a stimulus --> automatically, thoughtlessly, mechanically
Apperception: full attention on stimulus
How are apperception and perception different when it comes to organization and combination?
Perception: organized automatically, mechanically, associations, of past experince
Apperception: combined and organized in many ways, may not be experienced (creative synthesis, psychic causality)
What is voluntaristic psychology?
The approach that the 'thing' that is responsible for apperception is closely involved with the conscious experiences of will and voluntary effort
How was Wundt's approach to psychology two sided?
1. He had a deterministic, mechanistic and experimental approach of new psychology to (simple) central psychological processes
2. He relied on nonexperimental techniques when it came to complex and central functions
Which three basic dimensions did Wundt use to classify feelings?
pleasantness-unpleasantness, tension-relaxation, activity-passivity
Why did Titchener call his introspective approach structuralism?
He believed a psychologists' first task should be to discover the structure of the phenomena they dealt with before concerning themselves with the functions
How is Titchener's approach when it came to introspection?
A procedure that had to be trained, all of the mental contents should be reduced to their most basic elements (No stimulus error: imposition of meaning or interpretation of their subject)