Edward B Titchener Research Paper

Structuralism
Tierra Axom
Brewton-Parker College
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Abstract

Structuralism
• Definition: The system in which psychologists used introspection to try to find the basic elements of adult, human consciousness.
• The study of the elements of consciousness.
• The structure of the mind
• Major Structuralist Thinkers:
1. Wilhelm Wundt
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2. Edward B Titchener
 Born in the Roman established town of Chichester, South of England
 Not wealthy
 His father fought with the Confederate Army, returned to England, married, and died while in his 30s.
 Titchener’s intellectual gifts earned him scholarships first to Malvern College and then to Oxford.
 Countless of people considered Titchener as a male chauvinist, but that statement is weird to others; because most of his doctorate students are females. For example, he helped a student by the name of Celestia Suzannah Parrish learn about the new experimental psychology. Parrish established the first psychology in the south at R-MWC in Lynchburg, Virginia. She also published in psychology based on the work she did at Cornell. She after she moved from R-MWC to the chair in psychology and pedagogy at the State Normal School.
 Titchener is also the founder of the Experimentalists; and informal club of psychology laboratory directors. Within this club, the members were to meet annually to discuss their research with each other and with their most promising graduate students.
 To help those who were always traveling from German to America, Titchener published a German-English dictionary of psychological terms.
 Titchener thought of psychology as the science of the generalized, normal, human, and adult mind.
 He really did not care for the abnormal minds, animals’ minds, minds of the children, or individual minds; but he was interested in the mind of an idealized