12 Questions
What did Titchener reject in favor of traditional associationism?
Apperception and creative synthesis
According to Titchener, what is attention primarily associated with?
Clearness of sensation
What was a core aspect of Titchener's Context Theory of meaning?
Images of previous sensations
How did Titchener view the mind-body relationship?
Psychophysical parallelist
What was a significant reason for the decline of Structuralism in psychology according to the text?
Inconsistent methods of introspection
What did Titchener believe provides psychological processes with continuity?
Physiological processes
What was the primary focus of Titchener's use of introspection?
To identify the basic, raw experiences from which complex cognitive experiences are formed
What was considered a 'stimulus error' in Titchener's introspective method?
Naming or identifying the object being observed
Which of the following was not considered an attribute of sensations and images in Titchener's theory?
Meaning
According to Titchener, which sense had the highest number of identifiable sensations?
Vision (approximately 30,000 sensations)
What did Titchener eventually shift his focus to, according to the text?
The attributes of the mental elements
Which theory of Wundt's did Titchener disagree with?
The tridimensional theory of feeling
Explore Titchener's use of introspection and the concept of stimulus errors. Learn about how subjects had to describe basic, raw, elemental experiences without assigning meaning to stimuli. Dive into the difference between sensations and perceptions.
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