Whereas Chris may be correct in pointing to Titchener as the quintessential structuralist,most textbooks and the GRE during my college days list Wundt as belonging to the structuralism paradigmfew.I think that Dave Myers list him under structuralism,but do not quote me on this.Granting that Wundt did not buy the introspection method,the idea of digging into the nature of mind and its impact on behavior has been a dominant theme in the European schools of psychology.As a matter of fact schools of psychology emanating from Europe have been on a mind trip: structuralism,gestalt,psychoanalysis,exixtentialism, phenomenology,traits (Eysenck,Cattell),intelligence testing (Binet),Piagetism,logotherapy, Aldous Huxley-to mention just a few. And not even psychophysics was an aberration from this mental trend with conepts like absolute threshold,relative threshold and Jnd with dependcy on subjective verbal reports.
When I was an undergraduate at Gannon University,my experimental text was by Zimny which was really a text of psychophysical methods depedent on subjective responses. Just because experiments are done in a lab at Leipzig or anywhere else do not exclude a subjective evaluative response component. Wundt had an interest in cross-cultural psychology.But I am unable to elaborate since I do not read German.Wundt might have been the first cross-cultural dude. Michael 'omnicentric' Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18449 or send a blank email to leave-18449-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
