Edward Bradford Titchener – British Psychologist
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Edward Bradford Titchener D.Sc., Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D.
British Psychologist
* Born on January 11, 1867 in Chichester, England
* Has an old and distinguised family, but there was little wealth
* He entered Malvern College (a top preparatory school) by scholarship
o He demonstrated characteristic drive and excellence
o Always an awardee
* His family intended him for Anglican clergy
o His interests were not in religion
* He entered Brasenose College, Oxford on a classics scholarship
o Biology
o Comparative Psychology
* Became a student of Wilhem Wundt
* Received his doctorate in 1892 and worked at the laboratory of psychology at Cornell University
* Created the largest doctoral program in the United States during his time
* He died on August 3, 1927 at Ithaca
o He died at the age of 60
Contributions
* Created a system of Structural Psychology later termed Structuralism a study of the elemental structures of Consciousness based on introspection
* Used Introspection [self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations] to try and determine the different components of consciousness
* Believed that the mind was made of components that could be dismantled to determine interaction and experience
* Established an association of experimental Psychology called the Experimentalists (1904) which is still in existence today as the Society of Experimental Psychologists
* Was an influence in American Psychology bringing a strict empirical, Wundtian approach to experimental psychology
* Trained 56 doctoral students of which over a third were Women, many rising as prominent Psychologists
* Was a teacher of Margaret Floy Washburn (First woman to be granted a PhD in Psychology on 1894/ she published the first book on Animal Psychology and was American Psychological Association president in 1921)
* Founded the first psychology laboratory in the United States at Cornell University
* Received honorary degrees from Harvard, Clark, and Wisconsin
* Translated the third edition of Wundts book Principles of Physiological Psychology from German into English
* Translated Külpes Outlines of Psychology and other works
* Wrote Several Books:
o An Outline of Psychology (1896; new edition, 1902)
o A Primer of Psychology (1898; revised edition, 1903)
o Experimental Psychology (four volumes, 1901-05)–1.11.22.12.2
o Elementary Psychology of Feeling and Attention (1908)
o Experimental Psychology of the Thought