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Essay Instructions: Wilhelm Wundt and the first school of psychology.

a. What, according to Wundt, were the 3 goals of psychology? Explain what they mean.

b. What were the elements of thought and what were their attributes?

c. Explain the terms perception and apperception and creative synthesis as they were used by Wundt.

d. What was the role of attention in Wundt''s theory of the higher mental processes?

e. What was the relation between Wundt''s early work on the psychology of elements and his later work in the Volkerpsychologie with respect to both method and subject matter?

f. Cite two reasons for the decline of Wundtian psychology including, but not limiting your answer to criticism of introspection.

Essay Instructions: Origin of Psychology
Psychology has roots going all the way back to the 7th century B.C. The history of psychology as a distinct science began in the early 19th century when science was established as an accepted institution and began to be considered a major social movement. There are a number of key figures in the history of psychology??"including Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Mary Calkins, Mamie Clark, Kenneth Clark, and others.
For your essay, choose a historical figure in psychology??"anyone except Wilhelm Wundt. Frame your essay as if you are a reporter interviewing your chosen historical figure.

Complete the following:
Choose any historical figure excluding Wilhelm Wundt.
Compile information about the historical figure from external readings, libraries, or archives. Then, format the essay into a hypothetical interview and ask the historical figure the following questions:
Describe your life and work in the field of psychology.
What were your major contributions to the field?
Which psychological perspective or school of thought do your ideas most closely adhere to?
Is this perspective or school of thought still in existence in psychology today? Why, or why not?

Essay Instructions: Some things from lecture notes, to give an idea. Wilhelm Wundt. Philosophy and psychology. Cognitive revolution, behaviorist evolution. Skinner - operant conditioning. Freud's theory on anxiety, ego. Science- observation. Bottom up and top down traditions - Kant. Francis Bacon. tabula Rasa. Aristotele. Mechanistic vs Organismic. From theories to hypothesis. Freud anxiety. Behaviorism. Generating hypothesis. Hypothesis testing. Winner theory- more accurate data. Kuhn-"science is a paradox". Scientists are secular. Science comes out of Western traditions. Natural philosophers. Reductionism. Empiricism (maybe).

The Essay question to be answered is:

"Since Its beginnings late in the 19thcentury, psychology has intended to be a branch of the sciences.
What does being a science entail for the field of psychology?
In other words, what must the field of psychology do if it is to be a science?

What are the principal issues involved in evaluating a psychological theory?
How should the field of psychology decide which theories to take seriously and which to abandon?


What should a science of psychology study?
In other words, what issues and content can psychologists investigate that would be both psychological and scientific?

How does a science of psychology differ from other ways of explaining human and animal experiences and behavior, such as artistic or theological approaches?
How should psychology differ from other branches of science? What are the
assumptions about content that a science of psychology should make and what sort of methodology (or methodologies) should it employ?"


Yes, all these questions are considered as one question that must be answered in ONE coherent Essay. Plus, this essay should involve topics that I wrote that were presented in class/lecture notes. But! It must be one's own essay that reflects your own thoughts, external resources are still permitted, but all has to be cited in APA bibliography, since it's a Psychological paper (even in the text, even paraphrasing). Absolutely NO Plagiarism, please!
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