Edward Bradford Titchener 1867-1927 / by Charles S. Myers.

  • Myers, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1873-1946.
Date:
[1928?]
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Credit: Edward Bradford Titchener 1867-1927 / by Charles S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the same date. He had finally an annual entry of 1000 undergraduates, and a staff of two professors, two instructors, and three assistants. At the time of his death he was engaged on a Systematic Psychology which was to appear in three or four volumes; of these he had practically completed the first before his fatal illness. Titchener’s attitude towards psychology showed relatively little change throughout his life, despite the rapid progress and development of the subject. He took little interest in individual mental differences, in Behaviourism, the Gestaltpsychologie, mental testing, or in applied psychology. His single aim was to study the human mind in general, and to express all mental processes in terms of a fixed number of hypo¬ thetical elements and attributes. Although such atomistic procedure has been largely superseded now as a psychological ideal, Titchener’s views were useful in their day in provoking much experimental research. Whether or not they ever regain their former influence, their value during a by-gone stage in the development of psychology is unquestionable.