Tichener’s life presents some odd contradictions. He was clearly influential among his students (you know, none of you have offered to wash my car), and his control level over their lives was clearly high.
- Is it a contradiction that Titchener supported women’s progress through graduate school and supported hiring them as faculty, and yet refused to allow them into meetings of the Experimentalists? How can one person be so clearly contradictory? I think that this is contradictory. How can he support women in some circumstances then when it comes to things that could involve their opinions he excludes them. A person’s bias can play the key role in viewing the powers that some people should have which has been exemplified through prejudice in the past.
- How is the mechanistic spirit from philosophy evident in Titchener’s approach to introspection? It is evident in the images of the observers who supplied data in his labratories .
- What does the failings of introspection teach us about doing good research today (see “Criticisms of Introspection,” pp. 136-138)? Good research involves the variables of obsevation, which involves someone observing a experiement on something that can be observable. Having a stucture and function of information allows the research to be more reliable and relevant.
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