Systems

An organized way of envisioning the world or some aspect of the world (Systematic)

Psychological Systems

Provide definitions of psychology, major terms and concepts

People behave for certain reason

Prescribed and proscription acceptable methodologies

Fails to account for momentum accounts  (Culture)

Prescribed

What to do (Recommended)

Proscribed

What not to do (Forbid)

Edwards Bradford Titchener

Structuralism

The problem with Psychology (What, How, Why)

Started investigation of elemnetary mental processes, primarily the study of senses

All senses have a minimum of 4 attributes

- Quality, intensity, clearness, duration

Edwards Bradford Titchener (2)

Argued mental and physical worlds are two aspect of same world

Studied attention (Primary/Secondary)

Contiguity

Distinguished between emotion and affect

Margaret Flow Washburn

Titchener's first grad student

1st woman in U.S to get Ph.D

Evolutinary stance

Comparative psychology

"Motor Theory of Conciousness"

Argued animal conciousness

Franz Brentano

Viewed psychology as "The science of mental phenomena"

- Regarded as acts not passive processes

Empiricist: Experienced phenomena are real

Embraced pluralistic (Get info from many places) & dynamic (Flexible/adabtable) approach methodological approach

Inner Observation and Inner Perception

Inner Observation

Introspection

Inner Perception

Retrospection

Carl Stumpf

Protested reductionism

Emphasized the holistic nature of experience

Contributed to a broad collection of research areas

- Emotion, mental life of children, preception of space

- Propsed a holistic approach to musicology

Georg Elias Muller

Conducted research in psychophysics, memory, learning and vision

Was the first to use the term Retroactive inhibition