Edward B. Titchener

Titchener, Edward Bradford - tĭchˈənər, 1867–1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he was research professor from 1910. His works include Read More...

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The Primer of Psychology
by Edward Bradford Titchener. 322 pgs.

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Preface to Second Edition

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Chapter I: Psychology: What It is and What It Does

Chapter II: The Method of Psychology

Chapter III: Sensation

Chapter IV: Affection and Feeling

References

Chapter VI: Perception

Chapter VII: Idea and the Association of Ideas

Chapter VIII: Emotion

Chapter IX: The Simpler Forms of Action

Chapter X: Memory and Imagination

Chapter XI: Thought and Self-Consciousness

Chapter XII: Sentiment

Chapter XIII: The Complex Forms of Action

Chapter XIV: Abnormal Psychology

Chapter XV: The Province and the Relations of Psychology

Appendix I: Apparatus and Materials

Appendix II: The Cortical Centres (flechsig's Scheme)

Index Of Names and Subjects
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Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-Processes
by Edward Bradford Titchener. 326 pgs.

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Preface

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Lecture I: Imagery and Sensationalism

Lecture II: Reference to Object' as The Criterion of Mind

Lecture III: Methods and Results: The Bewusstseinslage

Lecture IV: Methods and Results: The Thought-Element

Lecture V: The Experimental Psychology Of Thought

Notes

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
3 .

A Text-Book of Psychology
by Edward Bradford Titchener. 572 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Index of Figures

Subject-Matter, Method and Problem of Psychology

Sensation

References for Further Reading

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Affection

Attention

Perception

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References for Further Reading

Association

Memory and Imagination

Action

Emotion

Thought

Conclusion

References for Further Reading

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
4 .

A Beginner's Psychology
by Edward Bradford Titchener. 362 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Chapter I: Psychology: What It Is and What It Does

References for Further Reading

Chapter II: Sensation

References

Chapter III: Simple Image and Feeling

References

Chapter IV: Attention

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Chapter V: Perception and Idea

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Chapter VI: Association

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Chapter VII: Memory and Imagination

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Chapter VIII: Instinct and Emotion

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Chapter IX: Action

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Chapter X: Thought

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Chapter XI: Sentiment

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Chapter XII: Self and Consciousness

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Appendix Dreaming and Hypnosis

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Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena
by Edward Bradford Titchener. 278 pgs.

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Introduction: Brentano and Wundt: Empirical and Experimental Psychology

Chapter I: Science

Chapter II: The Definition of Psychology: Point of View

Chapter III: The Definition of Psychology: Subject-Matter

Index
6 .

Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology (Chap. 7 "E. B. Titchener on Scientific Psychology and Technology")
by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer, Charlotte White. 368 pgs.

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Preface

Portraits of the Authors and Editors1

Chapter 1: A Trans-Time Visit with Francis Galton

Chapter 2: William James: Spoiled Child of American Psychology

Chapter 3: The Spirit of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Chapter 4: Freud: 3 Contributions

Chapter 5: From "Paired Associates" to a Psychology of Self

Chapter 6: The Intrepid Joseph Jastrow

Chapter 7: E. B. Titchener on Scientific Psychology and Technology

Chapter 8: Continuity for Women

Chapter 9: Harvey Carr and Chicago Functionalism

Chapter 10: Edward L. Thorndike

Chapter 11: C. G. Jung

Chapter 12: Perspectives on John B. Watson

Chapter 13: Max Wertheimer: Modern Cognitive Psychology and the Gestalt Problem

Chapter 14: Psychology from the Standpoint of a Mechanist

Chapter 15: Edward Chace Tolman

Chapter 16: Leta Stetter Hollingworth

Chapter 17: Natural Wholes

Chapter 18: General Anthroponomy and Its Systematic Problems

Chapter 19: Systems as Reconceptualizations

Chapter 20: Integrations of Lashley

Chapter 21: Harry Stack Sullivan

Chapter 22: Robert Choate Tryon

Index
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Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology ("Titchener, Edward Bradford (1867-1927)" begins on p. 224)
by Noel Sheehy. 275 pgs.

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This book focuses on fifty major influential figures in psychology, ranging from the earliest days of the discipline two hundred years ago to the present day.

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Alphabetical List of Contents

Chronological List of Contents

Preface

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

Glossary

Index
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Psychologist at Large: An Autobiography and Selected Essays ("Edward Bradford Titchener: 1867-1927" begins on p. 246)
by Edwin G. Boring. 371 pgs.

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Psychologist at Large: An Autobiography and Selected Essays

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Illustrations

Psychologist at Large 1960

Selected Letters

Letters

Selected Papers

Was This Analysis a Success? 1940

Was This Analysis a Success?

The Logic of the Normal Law of Error in Mental Measurement 1920

The Woman Problem 1951

Human Nature Vs. Sensation: William James and the Psychology of the Present 1942

A History of Introspection 1953

Edward Bradford Titchener: 1867-1927 1927

Lewis Madison Terman: 1877-1956 1959

When Is Human Behavior Predetermined? 1957

Psychological Factors in the Scientific Process 1954

Dual Role of the Zeitgeist in Scientific Creativity 1955

Cp Speaks

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Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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Topics in the History of Psychology, Vol. 1 ("The Roots of American Structuralism" begins on p. 262)
by Gregory A. Kimble, Kurt Schlesinger. 414 pgs.

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Contents of Volume 2

Preface

A Brief Introduction to a History of Psychology

REFERENCES

2 Conditioning and Learning

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3 Human Learning and Memory

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4 Comparative Psychology And Ethology

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5 Sensory Processes: Vision

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6 Taste And Olfaction

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7 A History Of Perception

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8 A History of the Study of the Cortex: Changes in the Concept of the Sensory Pathway

INTRODUCTION

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Name Index

Subject Index
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The Science of Behavior and the Image of Man (Chap. 6 "E. B. Titchener, the Behaviorist Revolution, and the Qualities of Experience")
by Isidor Chein. 347 pgs.

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Part I: Introduction

1: The Problem of the Image of Man

Part II: Basic Concepts and Psychological Processes

2: Man or Robot?

3: Definition, Science, and Reality

4: Behavior, Mind, and Related Concepts

5: Consciousness, Subconsciousness, and Related Concepts

6: E. B. Titchener, the Behaviorist Revolution, and the Qualities of Experience

7: Some Reflections on Reality

Part III: The Problem of the Actor

8: Personality: Integumented or Open?

9: The Self and Its Body: First Inquiry about the Actor

10: Who Is the Actor? Continuation of the Inquiry: the Self and the Ego

11: Ego and Superego

12: The Id

13: A Question of Entropy vs. Commitment

14: Ecce Homo!

Part IV: The Scientific Enterprise

15: Two Subcultures of Behavioral Science

16: Verity vs. Truth in the Scientific Enterprise

Index
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Methods in Social Science: A Case Book ("Analysis 5: Structural Psychology and the Psychology of Gestalt: The Methods of E. B. Titchener Compared with Those of K. Koffka, W. Kohler, and M. Wertheimer" begins on p. 109)
by Stuart A. Rice. 824 pgs.

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Foreword

Table of Contents

Introduction

Case Analyses

Section I: the Delimitation of Fields of Inquiry

ANALYSIS 1: THE METHOD OF AUGUSTE COMTE: SUBORDINATION OF IMAGINATION TO OBSERVATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

ANALYSIS 2: RELATION OF UTILITY THEORY TO ECONOMIC METHOD IN THE WORK OF WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 3: THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCIENCE OF POLITICS: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO METHODS SUGGESTED BY WILLIAM B. MUNRO AND GEORGE E. G. CATLIN

ANALYSIS 4: MARY RICHMOND'S FORMULATION OF A NEW SCIENCE

ANALYSIS 5: STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GESTALT: THE METHODS OF E. B. TITCHENER COMPARED WITH THOSE OF K. KOFFKA, W. KýHLER AND M. WERTHEIMER

ANALYSIS 6: PROBLEMS OF METHOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: ALFRED VERDROSS' CONCEPT OF THE UNITY OF THE LEGAL ORDER ON THE BASIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTION

Section II: the Definition of Objects of Investigation

ANALYSIS 7: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF VILFREDO PARETO

ANALYSIS 8: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, AND OF WILLIAM I. THOMAS AND FLORIAN ZNANIECKI

ANALYSIS 9: TYPOLOGICAL METHOD: E. KRETSCHMER'S STUDY OF PHYSIQUE AND CHARACTER

ANALYSIS 10: WILLIAM McDOUGALL'S METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF INSTINCT

Section III: the Establishment of Units and Scales

ANALYSIS 11: METHODS INVOLVED IN THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF POPULATION

ANALYSIS 12: A DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE SIZE OF FAMILIES, INVENTED BY EDGAR SYDENSTRICKER AND W. I. KING

ANALYSIS 13: TESTING AND SCALING METHODS: E. L. THORNDIKE'S MEASUREMENTS OF HANDWRITING

Section IV: Attempts to Discover Spatial Distributions and Temporal Sequences

ANALYSIS 14: A DETAIL OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: OBJECTIVES AND METHODS IN ROBERT S. PLATT'S STUDY OF THE ELLISON BAY COMMUNITY

ANALYSIS 15: THE INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY UPON THE INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AND LIFE OF A PEOPLE, AS DESCRIBED BY CARL ORTWIN SAUER AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 16: THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN INDUSTRY: C. C. COLBY'S STUDY IN GEO. GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

ANALYSIS 17: THE CULTURE-AREA AND AGE-AREA CONCEPTS OF CLARK WISSLER

ANALYSIS 18: HUGO OBERMAIER'S RECONSTRUCTION OF SEQUENCES AMONG PREHIS- TORIC CULTURES IN THE OLD WORLD

ANALYSIS 19: N. C. NELSON'S STRATICRAPHIC TECHNIQUE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC SEQUENCES IN SOUTHWESTERN AMERICA

Section V: Interpretations of Change as A Developmental Stage

ANALYSIS 21: THE CONCEPT OF PHONETIC LAW AS TESTED IN PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES

ANALYSIS 22: THE PREDICTION OF CULTURAL CHANGE: A PROBLEM ILLUSTRATED IN STUDIES BY F. STUART CHAPIN AND A. L. KROEBER

Section VI: Interpretations of Temporal Sequences with Consideration of Special Types of "Causation"

ANALYSIS 23: THE SECTION AND THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

ANALYSIS 24: THE WORK OF HENRI PIRENNE AND GEORG VON BELOW WITH RESPECT TO THE ORIGIN OF THE MEDIEVAL TOWN

ANALYSIS 25: HISTORY AND NATIONALISM AS PORTRAYED BY SIDNEY B. FAY

ANALYSIS 26: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF JULES MICHELET

ANALYSIS 27: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF ERNEST RENAN

ANALYSIS 28: SPIRITUAL VALUES IN THE WORK OF ERNST TROELTSCH

ANALYSIS 29: VOLTAIRE, HISTORIAN OF CIVILIZATION AND EXPONENT OF RATIONALISM

ANALYSIS 30: WHAT ARE HISTORIANS TRYING TO DO

Section VII: Interpretations of Relationship Among Unmeasured Factors

ANALYSIS 31: HISTORICAL INTERRELATION OF CULTURE TRAITS: FRANZ BOAS' STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY

ANALYSIS 32: THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL ATTITUDES: A SEMI-INTUITIVE INQUIRY BY JAMES MICKEL WILLIAMS

ANALYSIS 33: THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF JAMES BRYCE

ANALYSIS 34: A HYPOTHESIS ROOTED IN THE PRECONCEPTIONS OF A SINGLE CIVILIZATION TESTED BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

ANALYSIS 35: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ECONOMICS, REPRESENTED IN THE WORK OF J. A. HOBSON

ANALYSIS 36: SOCIAL FORCES IN PERSONAL-BEHAVIOR SEQUENCES STUDIED BY THE JUDGE BAKER FOUNDATION

ANALYSIS 37: FREDERIC M. THRASHER'S STUDY OF GANGS

ANALYSIS 38: THE MISSOURI CRIME SURVEY

Section VIII: Attempts to Determine Relations Among Measured but Experimentally Uncontrolled Factors

ANALYSIS 39: INTERRELATIONS OF STATISTICAL AND CASE METHODS: STUDIES OF YOUNG DELINQUENTS BY JOHN SLAWSON AND CYRIL BURT

ANALYSIS 40: HYPOTHESES AND VERIFICATIONS IN CLIFFORD R. SHAW'S STUDIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

ANALYSIS 41: MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT BY DOROTHY SWAINE THOMAS OF SOCIAL DATA ARRANGED IN TIME SERIES

ANALYSIS 42: THE CONCEPT OF RACE IN THE LIGHT OF FRANZ BOAS' STUDIES OF HEAD-FORMS AMONG IMMIGRANTS

ANALYSIS 43: BEHAVIOR ALTERNATIVES AS STATISTICAL DATA IN STUDIES BY WILLIAM F. OGBURN AND ERNEST W. BURGESS

ANALYSIS 44: THE INDUCTIVE TESTING OF AN ECONOMIC DEDUCTON: A METHOD ILLUSTRATED BY ANALYSES OF MARGINAL PRODUCERS AND REPRESENTATIVE FIRMS, BY ALFRED MARSHALL, HORACE SECRIST, AND KEMPER SIMPSON

ANALYSIS 45: STATISTICAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE OPERATION OF THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS BY MORDECAI EZEKIEL AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 46: HENRY L. MOORE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATISTICAL LAW OF DEMAND

ANALYSIS 47: WESLEY C. MITCHELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF BUSINESS CYCLES

Section IX: Attempts to Determine Quantitative Relations Among Measured and Experimentally Controlled Factors

ANALYSIS 48: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATIONS BY S. WYATT AND J. A. FRASER OF THE EFFECTS OF REST PAUSES UPON REPETITIVE WORK

ANALYSIS 49: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION BY FLOYD H. ALLPORT OF GROUP INFLUENCES UPON MENTAL ACTIVITY

ANALYSIS 50: HAROLD F. GOSNELL'S EXPERIMENTS IN THE STIMULATION OF VOTING

ANALYSIS 51: THE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF HIGHER MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE PIONEER STUDIES OF H. EBBINGHAUS

ANALYSIS 52: THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ATTITUDE, MEANING, AND THE PROCESSES ANTECEDENT TO ACTION BY N. ACH AND OTHERS IN THE WýRZBURG LABORATORY

Appendixes

Indexes
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The Compromised Scientist: William James in the Development of American Psychology (Chap. Four "The Uncompromised Scientist: Edward Bradford Titchener")
by Daniel W. Bjork. 226 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter One The Shifting Moment

Chapter Two The Compromised Artist

Chapter Three The German Connection: James and Hugo Münsterberg

Chapter Four The Uncompromised Scientist: Edward Bradford Titchener

Chapter Five Psychological Nationalist: James Mckeen Cattell

Chapter Six The Pitfalls Of Parental Compromising

Chapter Seven Accommodating the Boundaries Of Consciousness

Conclusion: The Consequences of Compromising

Notes

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