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Structuralism and Voluntarism
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/18/2012

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Apperception (Wundt)
Definition
Active and voluntary, an act of will e.g. when one voluntarily decides to pay attention to the sound of the trumpet and isn't listening to all the people talking around them
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Theory of feelings (Wundt)
Definition
Every sensation has associated with it some feeling
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3 Dimensions of feelings (Wundt)
Definition
1. Pleasure/displeasure
2. Strain and relaxation
3. Excitement and calm
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Creative synthesis
Definition
Elements can be attended to and mentally arranged according to the individuals will
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Volkerpsychology
Definition
Study of higher mental processes: capacity for language, moral reasoning, ethical thinking, etc
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Behaviorism
Definition
Psychology is the study of behavior, not consciousness
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Titchener's elements
Definition
Sensation, affectations, and images
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Wundt's elements
Definition
Sensation, perception, and apperception
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Titchener
Definition
Structuralism, concerned with determining mental elements and how they combine and interact (through association and laws of contiguity)
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Voluntarism
Definition
Emphasis on choice, will, and purpose. Apperception is active and voluntary
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Titchener: The attribute of sensation
Definition
Is clarity, we automatically listen to whatever has the most intensity and clarity.
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Attributes of elements
Definition
quality, intensity, duration, clearness, and extensity
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Rules for introspection
Definition
1. The observer must be in a position to determine when the process is to be introduced. (so that the observer isn't caught off guard and can isolate mental processes)
2. He must be in a state of "strained attention
3. Repeatable
4. Conditions must be varied
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