Wilhelm Wundt, 1902
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
(16 August 1832 ? 31 August 1920) was a German
physician
, physiologist,
philosopher
, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern
psychology
.
Principles of Physiological Psychology,
1904
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Wilhelm Wundt.
Principles of Physiological Psychology
Translated by
Edward B. Titchener
1904. Republished 1969.
- The results of ethnic psychology constitute... our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
- In Aristotle the
mind
, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
- From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
An Introduction to Psychology
(1912)
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An Introduction to Psychology
,
1912; 1924.
- The whole task of
psychology
can therefore be summed up in these two problems : (1) What are the elements of
consciousness
? (2) What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations ?
- If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes ; there are no permanent ideas that
return
again and
disappear
again.
Quotes about Wilhelm Wundt
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- Throughout the nineteenth century, apart from the division in
theoretical sciences
and
arts
, classifiers attempted to divide the sciences into two groups. Already they had before them the examples of
Francis Bacon
(speculative and descriptive) and
Hobbes
(quantitative and qualitative). For
Coleridge
, the sciences were either
pure
(Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Metaphysics) or mixed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
’s similar groups were called
pure
and
empirical
, Wilhelm Wundt in 1887 called them
formal
and
empirical
, Globot
mathematical
and
theoretical
, and the St. Louis Congress of Arts and Sciences (1904)
normative
and
physical
.
Karl Pearson
made similar division of the sciences into
abstract and concrete
- Brian Vickery
(1958)
Classification and indexing in science
. p. 154.
- Imagery
played a central role in theories of the
mind
for centuries. For example, the British
Associationists
conceptualizes thought itself as sequences of images. And, Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of scientific psychology, emphasized the analysis of images. However, the central role of imagery in theories of mental activity was undermined when
Kulpe
, in 1904, pointed out that some thoughts are not accompanied by imagery (e.g., one is not aware of the processes that allow one to decide which of two objects is heavier).
- Robert Andrew Wilson, ?Frank C. Keil (2001),
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.
p. 387
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