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Question: What do Wilhelm Wundt and Dr. D. have in common?

Question: What do Wilhelm Wundt and Dr. D. have in common?. They are both short. They are both brilliant. They both speak German fluently. They are both experimental psychologists None of the above Two of the above All of the above. Answer:. F. Two of the above.

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Question: What do Wilhelm Wundt and Dr. D. have in common?

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  1. Question: What do Wilhelm Wundt and Dr. D. have in common? • They are both short. • They are both brilliant. • They both speak German fluently. • They are both experimental psychologists • None of the above • Two of the above • All of the above

  2. Answer: F. Two of the above

  3. The Rise of Experimental Psychology Or The Wundt I knew, and others!

  4. The Zeitgeist: Influences • Chemistry: Mendeleev and the Periodic Table of the Elements • Elementalism • Physiology • Psychophysics • Johannes Mueller (U. of Berlin) • Hermann von Helmholtz ( U. of Heidelberg) • Gustav Fechner (U. of Leipzig)

  5. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and his “brass instrument” psychology • “…to mark out a new domain of science…” that is experimental psychology. • 1st course in experimental psychology (1867) • 1st textbook in experimental psychology: Principles of Physiological Psychology (1873-1874) • 1st scientific psychology laboratory (1879) • 1st psychology journal: Philosophishe Studien (1881)

  6. Getting “up close and personal”A “kiss” • Here’s what I want you to do….

  7. Wundt’s Methods • Psychophysics • Introspection (Experimentelle Selbst-beobatung) • Trained introspectionists: strained attention • Rigidly controlled stimulus conditions • Intensive repetition • Systematic variation

  8. Wundt’s Major Concepts • Conscious Experience • Voluntarism (“volition”) • Sensations and feelings • Apperception

  9. Wundt’s “other” Contributions • Tri-dimensional theory of feeling • Pleasure/displeasure • Tension/relaxation • Excitement/depression • Volkerpsychologie (cultural psychology) (1900-1920)

  10. Wilhelm Wundt… Founder, originator, experimenter, synthesizer, author, teacher, tyrant?????

  11. Wundt’s Students • G. Stanley Hall • Edward Titchener • Edwin Boring • And…..

  12. Who Am I? • Developed method for ranking according to merit • Introduced the term “mental tests” • First student to earn a doctorate under Wundt’s supervision • Founded Psychological Science; owner and publisher of Science; edited many important journals • Organized the Psychological Corporation to promote applied  • Arrogant: “I don’t know how to give up when I think I am right.” OR…. • Inspiration to students rather than a great teacher: Thorndike, Woodworth, Margaret Washburn: “I feel an affectionate gratitude to [Cattell], as my first teacher, which in these later years I have courage to express…”)

  13. 1896: Founded first psychological clinic, UPenn”Founder” of Clinical Psychology Who Am I? • Founded the first clinical journal: The Psychological Clinic, 1907 • Defined the existence and agenda of a new helping profession, clinical psychology: “I have borrowed the word, ‘clinical’ from medicine…’ in the first article, first issue of the journal • 1908 established a residential school for care/treatment of retarded and troubled children • Conceptualized, organized, carried out first program to train clinical psychologists by his definition and attracted people to it; rigorous training in scientific methodology • Especially critical of unscientific and often fraudulent treatment of mental illness

  14. Who Am I? • First I/O psychologist • First talk on psychology of advertising, 1901 • First professor of applied psychology--advertising, Northwestern, 1915”Law of Suggestibility” [Use Ban Roll-on!]; coupons • Chaired the Committee on Classification of Personnel of the War Departmentrating scale for selecting officers • Founded first psychology consulting company • First book on advertising: The Theory and Practice of Advertising

  15. The Rivals to Voluntarism • Act Psychology • Franz Brentano (Wurtzburg): Phenomenology • Carl Stumpf • Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalysis) • Christian von Ehrenfels (early Gestalt) • Precursor to William James’ Functionalism • Oswald Kulpe (Wurtzburg) • Carl Stumpf (Berlin) • Max Wertheimer (Gestalt) • Study of Higher Mental Processes

  16. “Uber das Gedachtnis”Hermann Ebbinghaus • Empirical study of memory • Serial learning • Meaningless syllables: jyk, sem, cyg • Savings • Spaced practice • Repetition • “Forgetting” curve

  17. Memory (forgetting) Curve

  18. Georg E. Muller (1800-19340 • Memory drum • Retroactive inhibition (forgetting) • standardized difficulty of meaningless syllables • Laboratory at Gottingen

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