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Sensation

vs.

Perception

Experimental Psychology

Sensation

  • physiological response to stimuli

Perception

  • psychological interpretation of stimuli
  • E.H. Weber
  • Psychology as a separate scientific discipline
  • Linguistics and the Human Brain
  • Empirical Experiments External Vs Internal
  • External-measured in a laboratory
  • Internal-measured by self report of internal observations

Wilhelm Wundt

Citations

Structuralism

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Psychologists, F., & (1832-1920), W. (2017). Wilhelm Wundt Biography. Goodtherapy.org. Retrieved 28 August 2017, from https://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/wilhelm-wundt.html

Wilhelm Wundt | German physiologist and psychologist. (2017). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 August 2017, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt's Theory & Structuralism: Overview - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com. (2017). Study.com. Retrieved 28 August 2017, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/wilhelm-wundts-theory-structuralism-lesson-quiz.html

Vygotsky | Simply Psychology. (2017). Simplypsychology.org. Retrieved 28 August 2017, from https://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html

Narrative Psychology: Wilhelm Wundt (Theorists). (2017). Web.lemoyne.edu. Retrieved 28 August 2017, from http://web.lemoyne.edu/hevern/narpsych/nr-theorists/wundt_wilhelm.html

  • def.- a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience
  • Breaking down cognitive processes
  • 1879-Wundt open his first laboratory dedicated to psychological experimentation
  • Introspection
  • Criticized for being to subjective and unreliable
  • Used bias students as observers
  • Wundt served as judge between disagreeing observations
  • (1832-1920)
  • Born in Mannheim, Germany
  • Psychologist, Linguist, and Philosopher
  • Received MD at Heidelberg University in 1855
  • 1862-Published Contributions to the Theory for Sensory Perception
  • Three subdivisions of Psychology
  • Physical
  • Human/Social
  • Scientific Metaphysics

Summary

Linguistics

  • Separated Psychology from Philosophy
  • Father of Experimental Psychology
  • Structuralism
  • External vs. Internal or Physiological vs. Psychological
  • 1900-published first of ten volumes of Ethno-Cultural Psychology: An Investigation of the Developmental Laws of Language, Myth, and Customs
  • Society follows historical stages characterized by language and artifacts concerning development therein
  • Linguistics as a tool to understand social behavior
  • Vygotsky -1970's
  • important stage of cognitive development is the internalization of language

Wilhelm Wundt

The Father of Experimental Psychology

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