Edward Bradford Titchener, D.Sc., Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (January 11, 1867 – August 3, 1927) was an Englishman and a student of Wilhelm Wundt before becoming a professor of psychology and initiating a psychology laboratory in the United States at Cornell University.
He was educated in Europe. He would develop his own version of Wundt's psychology of consciousness after he emigrated to the United States. He translated into the English language the ...
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Edward Bradford Titchener, D.Sc., Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (January 11, 1867 – August 3, 1927) was an Englishman and a student of Wilhelm Wundt before becoming a professor of psychology and initiating a psychology laboratory in the United States at Cornell University.
He was educated in Europe. He would develop his own version of Wundt's psychology of consciousness after he emigrated to the United States. He translated into the English language the concept of empathy, which had been invented by Robert Vischer (in German). Titchener attempted to classify the structures of the mind, not unlike the way a chemist analyzes chemicals into their component parts - water into hydrogen and oxygen, for example. Thus, for Titchener, just as hydrogen and oxygen were structures, so were sensations and thoughts. He conceived of hydrogen and oxygen as structures of a chemical compound, and sensations and thoughts as structures of the mind. This method became known as structuralism. Tichener's brain was...
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