5.1 Why
did some of Titchener’s graduate students swallow rubber tubes, take
notebooks to the bathroom, and record their feelings during intercourse?
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5.2 Contrast and compare Titchener’s and Wundt’s approaches to psychology.
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5.3 Describe
the paradoxical views of Titchener regarding the place of women in
psychology. Did he act to assist them in their careers or discriminate
against them?
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5.4 According
to Titchener, what is the proper subject matter for psychology? How
does it differ from the subject matter of other sciences?
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5.5 What is the stimulus error? Give an example. How, in Titchener’s view, could the stimulus error be avoided?
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5.6 What distinction did Titchener draw between consciousness and mind?
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5.7 Describe Titchener’s method of introspection. How did it differ from Wundt’s?
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5.8 Describe
the difference between experience as independent of the experiencing
person and experience as dependent on the experiencing person. Give
examples. According to Titchener, which type provides the data for
psychology?
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5.9 What did Titchener’s use of the term reagent indicate about his views of human subjects and of people in general?
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5.10 Describe Titchener’s three elementary states of consciousness and the four attributes of mental elements.
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5.11 In what ways did Titchener begin to alter his system late in his career?
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5.12 What criticisms had been made of the method of introspection before the work of Titchener?
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5.13 On what grounds was Titchener’s approach to introspection criticized? How did he answer his critics?
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5.14 How did Titchener distinguish between inspection and introspection?
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5.15 What was the role of retrospection in psychological research, according to Titchener?
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5.16 What
additional criticisms have been made of Titchener’s structuralism? What
contributions has Titchener’s structuralism made to psychology?
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