PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES
PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY
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Detailed explanation-1: -Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did Titchener’s use of the term reagent indicate about his views of human subjects and of people in general? Reagents indicates that substances (people), because of their capacity for certain reactions, are used to detect, examine, or measure other substances (people).
Detailed explanation-3: -Titchener. Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.
Detailed explanation-4: -He initially focused on biology, but he soon shifted to the study of comparative psychology. During his time at Oxford, he began to read the writings of Wilhelm Wundt and later translated the first volume of Wundt’s famous text Principles of Physiological Psychology from German into English.