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  • Lange, and Wundt is thrilled to the heart with the doctrine that first, last, and always man is emotional.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • This identity of representation and representational act typifies what we may call Wundt's “monistic perspectivism.” [

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • Though Wundt was surely skeptical of the existence of imageless thoughts, his primary criticisms were methodological.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Their results were challenged on several grounds by Wundt, Titchener and others, and were certainly never definitively established.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Involved in a controversy with Wundt and his students on experiments and on Fechner's law.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

  • Unsurprisingly, Wundt, and others, refused to accept these new methods and conclusions, and a heated debate, the so called imageless thought controversy, ensued.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Such experiments, Wundt argued, were open invitations to suggestion, and, indeed, were not experiments at all in the sense of scientific methodology: they are counterfeit experiments that seem methodical simply because they are ordinarily performed in a psychological laboratory and involve the coöperation of two persons, who purport to be experimenter and observer.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • This controversy is at the origin of an important division in the middle of the nineteenth century among the proponents of the new psychology, involving, on one hand, empiricism represented mainly by Helmholtz and Wundt, and on the other hand, nativism which, according to Helmholtz, characterizes the works of Ewald Hering in physiology, and which in turn influenced the Brentano school and to a certain extent Gestalt psychology.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

  • To demonstrate this connection, Mead begins by articulating what he learned about the gesture from Wundt.

    George Herbert Mead Aboulafia, Mitchell 2008

  • It's been a long time since I researched the origins of psychology, but I recall distinctly that all the earliest of those who contributed to psychology (James, Wundt, Helmholtz, Freud) all necessarily came from other fields (what Postman called the academic doctrine of "hot pursuit" of a field across pedagogical lines; much the same happened with cognitive science in the 1980s).

    Job Postings 2007

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