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

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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

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Answer
F. Two of the above
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The Rise of Experimental Psychology

• Or
• The Wundt I knew, and others!

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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)

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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)

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Getting up close and personalA kiss

• Heres what I want you to do.

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Wundts Methods

• Psychophysics
• Introspection (Experimentelle Selbst-beobatung)
• Trained introspectionists strained attention
• Rigidly controlled stimulus conditions
• Intensive repetition
• Systematic variation

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Wundts Major Concepts

• Conscious Experience
• Voluntarism (volition)
• Sensations and feelings
• Apperception

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Wundts other Contributions

• Tri-dimensional theory of feeling
• Pleasure/displeasure
• Tension/relaxation
• Excitement/depression
• Volkerpsychologie (cultural psychology)
  (1900-1920)

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Wilhelm Wundt

• Founder, originator, experimenter, synthesizer,
  author, teacher,
• tyrant?????

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Wundts Students

• G. Stanley Hall
• Edward Titchener
• Edwin Boring
• And..

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Who Am I?

• First student to earn a doctorate under Wundts
  supervision
• Founded Psychological Science owner and
  publisher of Science edited many important
  journals
• Organized the Psychological Corporation to
  promote applied ?
• Arrogant I dont 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)

• Developed method for ranking according to merit
• Introduced the term mental tests

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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

• 1896 Founded first psychological clinic,
  UPenn?Founder of Clinical Psychology

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Who Am I?

• 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

• First I/O psychologist
• First talk on psychology of advertising, 1901

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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

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Uber das GedachtnisHermann Ebbinghaus

• Empirical study of memory
• Serial learning
• Meaningless syllables jyk, sem, cyg
• Savings
• Spaced practice
• Repetition
• Forgetting curve

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Memory (forgetting) Curve
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Georg E. Muller (1800-19340

• Memory drum
• Retroactive inhibition (forgetting)
• standardized difficulty of meaningless syllables
• Laboratory at Gottingen