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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University

Edward Titchener and Hugo Maunsterberg

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Introduction

  1. Similarities
  2. Differences

Edward Bradford Titchener

  1. Education
  2. Move to Cornell
  3. Titchener's Version of Wundt
    1. Lectures
    2. Writing
    3. Methodology
  4. Titchener's Psychological System: Functionalism
    1. Threefold task of psychology
      1. Identify Elements of Mind
      2. Explain Their Connections
      3. Correlate Them to the Nervous System
    2. Introspection
  5. The Elements of Consciousness
    1. Sensations, Images, Feelings
    2. Titchener's Increasing Restrictiveness
  6. The Controversial Titchener
    1. Harsh and Dismissive
  7. Titchener in Perspective
    1. Later Years
    2. Fate of Structuralism

Hugo Münsterberg

  1. Early education
    1. Münsterberg's Early Academic Career
      1. University of Freiburg
      2. Contact with William James
      3. Move to Harvard
    2. Münsterberg's Applied Psychology
      1. Contrast with Titchener
    3. Münsterberg's Clinical Psychology
      1. Role of Therapist
      2. Use of Suggestion
      3. Psychotherapy
    4. The Beginning of Forensic Psychology
      1. On the Witness Stand
  2. Eyewitness Reports
  3. Crime Prevention
  4. The Sensational Münsterberg
    1. Lie Detection
    2. False Confessions
    3. "The Mind of the Juryman"
  5. The Beginning of Industrial Psychology
    1. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
      1. Employee Selection
      2. Worker Efficiency
      3. Consumer Demand
  6. Münsterberg Honored and Defamed
    1. Fame
    2. Self-appointed German Spokesperson
    3. Downfall
  7. William McDougall

Titchener and Münsterberg in Retrospect

  1. Influence Then and Now

Margaret Floy Washburn

  1. First Student of Titchener
  2. Research
  3. Career

Boring and Boring: A Study in Contrasts

  1. Lucy May Boring
    1. Research and Career
  2. Edwin Garrigues Boring
    1. Research and Career
      1. History of Experimental Psychology

Experimental Psychologists’ Search for Purity

  1. APA
  2. Titchener's Experimentalists
  3. Society of Experimental Psychology
  4. Psychological Round Table

Lies, Blood Pressure and Wonder Woman

  1. William Moulton Marston
    1. The Lie Detector