Institute Of Experimental Psychology Research Articles

Edward Bradford Titchener: 3. Psychology as Science: With Wundt at Leipzig

Abstract Edward B. Titchener is known to have been a chief advocate of controlled laboratory experiments in psychology in the United States in the field's earliest days. His intensive education as an experimental psychologist took place over 2 years under Wilhelm Wundt's supervision in Leipzig. Wundt was the major figure in the “new psychology” of the time, which indeed emphasized controlled laboratory experiments. This article describes Titchener's transition from Oxford to Leipzig in 1890, the general characteristics of Wundt and his Institute for Experimental Psychology, and the specific experiences that shaped Titchener's approach to psychology. In Leipzig, Titchener learned experimental psychology from courses taught by Wundt, Oswald Külpe, and others, as well as by serving as an experimental subject for others and by conducting his own experiments. By the time Titchener received his doctoral degree and left Leipzig in the summer of 1892, he had begun to drift from Wundt's approaches to psychological experiment, but he was prepared to begin to direct and develop his psychology laboratory at Cornell University.

Reconstruction of Wilhelm Wundt's last residence in Saxony and the search for subsequent use as a research institute, fellowship house, or museum of psychotechnics.

The German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) is now recognized worldwide as the founding figure of academic psychology. He founded the first Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig in 1879 and gained recognition during his lifetime. The scientist's last home in the small village of Großbothen in East Germany, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Berlin, was left to decay after German reunification in 1989/1990. Wundt's other homes in Leipzig were destroyed during World War II. During the GDR period, when the house was owned by the public sector, an inscription in honor of Wundt was added. It then stood empty for many years and fell into disrepair. In June 2016, an association was founded at Schloss Altranstädt near Leipzig with the aim of acquiring the rights to use the Wilhelm Wundt House. Thanks to their efforts, the house has now been entrusted to a conservationist as of 2018. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Wilhelm Wundt through the Eyes of a Student from Lithuania: Records in the Diary of Vytautas Civinskis Related to Psychology Lectures at Leipzig in 1905

The article addresses aspects of the connections between Wilhelm Wundt and Lithuania. It is introduced by briefly mentioning facts known from previous research about Lithuanians who studied at Wundt’s Institute of Experimental Psychology at Leipzig, and those who chose Wundt’s work as the object of their research. In the main part of the article, for the first time, excerpts from a manuscript with Lithuanian student’s impressions about Wundt’s psychology lectures he attended are published in Lithuanian and in original multilingual text. It was written by Vytautas Civinskis (Polish Witold Cywiński, 1887–1910), the student of agricultural sciences at Leipzig University, in his Diary in 1905. Although small in volume and written by a very young person, these recordings are interesting as an authentic testimony. According to the available data, this is the only surviving archival document of such kind written by a student from Lithuania. From the document, it is possible to deduce how the student evaluated Wundt as a lecturer, what were the content and form of his lectures, as well as the physical, social and intellectual environment at Leipzig, and what opportunities all that provided for students. The mentioned aspects are discussed in the comments of the archival materials. It is concluded that bringing to awareness the fact of existence of the student’s Diary entries related to Wundt’s lectures complements the Lithuanian psychology history quite significantly, and their content reveals Wundt’s attention to the philosophical basis of experimental psychology, psychophysiology, the details of several experiments he demonstrated.

Л. С. Выготский и ученики: результаты коллективной научной деятельности в первой половине ХХ в.

Within the framework of the study of collective forms of arranging national scientific activity the paper presents the outcomes of the activity of the groups organized by L. S. Vygotsky at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, the Experimental Defectologic Institute, the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, and the Academy of Communist Education named after N. K. Krupskaya. The analysis of the titles and contents of the works published from 1924 to 1950 revealed the fact that prevailing number of researches were fundamental, a third part of which, however, had a practical orientation. The author has come to the conclusion that collective research activities were of importance for realization of L. S. Vygotsky’s general psychology ideas and methodological sets in the course of solving practical tasks in child and educational psychology, defectology, neuropsychology, and pathopsychology that were significant for public.

The digitization of the Wundt estate at Leipzig University.

Wilhelm M. Wundt (1832-1920) was one of the most important German scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries and famously founded the first institute for experimental psychology in Leipzig in 1879. Wundt's institute established a teaching and research facility that attracted a large number of students from all over the world and contributed greatly to the development of modern psychology. Until now, the relatively poor indexing and documentation as well as the difficulty in accessing the Wundt estate has prevented a widespread and comprehensive investigation and consideration of these documents. The digitization project described in this article has rectified these problems and will hopefully provide a valuable source for students and researchers interested in Wundt's work. (PsycINFO Database Record

La escuela normal superior y los test en Colombia

<p>Con base en archivos y documentos y con el método de la historia social de las instituciones que sustenta que en Colombia, y que en general en América Latina, la psicología nace dentro del contexto de la pedagogía, el Instituto de Psicología Experimental inició la aplicación psicotécnica de test en el año 1937, dirigido por Leo Walter. El interés fundamental de los estudios sicológicos aplicados a la educación se relaciona de modo especial con el diagnóstico y la selección de los estudiantes a partir de pruebas de medición y evaluación. Por esta razón se aplican los primeros test de inteligencia como el de Lewis Terman y Army. De otra parte, los test de Dearborn proporcionan los marcos fundamentales para comprender y tratar las dificultades de lectura; se aplican también los test auditivos de Ballard. En la época aparecen los primeros manuales sobre la aplicación de test por parte de Alejandro Cano, entre otros, y la primera tesis sobre el tema elaborada por estudiantes normalistas superiores.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

Wundt et la fondation en 1879 de son laboratoire

Summary: Wundt and the founding of his laboratory in 1879 The establishment of Wilhelm Wundt's Leipzig Institute for experimental psychology during the Winter Semester of 1879-1880 has been regarded as a major accomplishment in the institutionalization of psychology as a modern science. It is unfortunate that little information is available about the circumstances under which Wundt established and developped his laboratory. Only the date of 1879 has found its way into almost all histories of psychology and in many introductory books. In the first part of the paper, Wundt's early life and his call to Leipzig is presented. In the second part of the paper, the origin, development, and organization of Wundt's laboratory is chronicled. Emphasis is placed on the use of archival materials, documents, and eyewitness accounts. Key words : Wundt, laboratory, Leipzig, Institute of experimental psychology.

French descriptions of Wundt's laboratory in Leipzig in 1886.

Translations are provided of extracts from reports by the French-speaking scholars Alfred Grafé and Emile Durkheim concerning the instructional procedures in place at Wundt's Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig in the summer of 1886. It is stressed that reports such as theirs were of importance, not only to researchers, but also to teachers and administrators concerned with how the new experimental psychology should be taught, especially with respect to practical classes.

A.R. Luria and L. S. Vygotsky: Early Years of their Collaboration

The names [Luria and Vygotsky] are traditionally linked. Anyone who has the least interest in the history of Soviet psychology knows that Alexander Romanovich Luria (1902-1977) was a student of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934). In the '20s they, together with Aleksei Nikolaev Leont'ev (1903-1979), formed the so-called troika that has played such an important role in the development of Soviet psychology. The external circumstances of their joint work at the Institute of Experimental Psychology (today the Scientific Research Institute of the Department of Applied Psychology of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Science) and at the Krupskaya Academy of Communist Education in the '20s and '30s are known to everyone. Nevertheless, these facts have remained almost unanalyzed by historians of psychology. All of the history of the scientific collaboration between Vygotsky and Luria, the discipleship of the latter, is of undoubted interest for both the history of psychology and for the philosophy of science itself (as a model of the relationship between teacher and student in science). We shall attempt in this article to examine these questions from the perspective of one topic: What importance did his contact with Vygotsky have for Luria's scientific career? (1)

Experimental vs. Educational psychology: Wilhelm Wundt's letters to Ernst Meumann

Wilhelm Wundt founded his own journal, Philosophische Studien, only two years after the establishment of his famous Institute for Experimental Psychology at Leipzig University in 1879. During the following two decades the journal played a significant role in the development of experimental psychology as an autonomous science. The Archiv fur die gesamte Psychologie, which was founded in 1903 by a group of Wundt's former students under the leadership of Ernst Meumann, was to serve a similar function in the institutionalization of educational psychology in Germany. The present study makes extensive use of previously unpublished letters, which Wundt wrote to Meumann between 1902 and 1905, in the description and analysis of the origin, objectives, and editorial practices of the Archive. Wundt's eventual dissociation from this journal and the foundation of the rival Psychologische Studien in 1905 will be discussed. Finally, theoretical disagreements between Wundt and Meumann about the nature and importance of educational and other fields of applied psychology will be presented.

The neural bases of sex differences in nonsexual behaviour in animals and man: A review and an evolutionary hypothesis: J. A. Gray and A. W. H. Buffery — Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford (Great Britain)

The neural bases of sex differences in nonsexual behaviour in animals and man: A review and an evolutionary hypothesis: J. A. Gray and A. W. H. Buffery — Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford (Great Britain)

Comparison of so-called amnesic states in monkey and man: L. Weiskrantz and E. K. Warrington — Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, and the National Hospital, London (Great Britain)

Comparison of so-called amnesic states in monkey and man: L. Weiskrantz and E. K. Warrington — Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, and the National Hospital, London (Great Britain)

Neural systems involved in intracranial self-stimulation: E. T. Rolls— Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford (Great Britain)

Neural systems involved in intracranial self-stimulation: E. T. Rolls— Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford (Great Britain)

Physical and Psycho-Physiological Aspects of Colour

THE British Psychological Society and the Colour Group of the Physical Society held a joint meeting, their first, m the Hastings Hall, Tavistock House, London, on February 12, when a number of problems about colout were discussed. Mr. J. G. Holmes, chairman of the Colour Group, was in the chair. Three main topics were introduced by members of a panel consisting of Dr. L. C. Thomson (Vision Research Unit, Medical Research Council), Mr. R. C. Oldfield (Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford), Dr. R. W. Pickford (Department of Psychology, Glasgow), Dr. W. D. Wright (Department of Optics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London) and Mr. W. A. Allen (Building Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research). General discussion of each subject followed the contributions of the panel.

Prof. Wilhelm Wundt

WITH the death on September 1, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, of Prof. W. Wundt a remarkable and striking personality passes away from the scientific world. If, as a philosophic thinker, he did not possess either the speculative genius or the insight of a Herbart or a Lotze, he was yet a mind of extraordinary versatility, whose comprehensive acquaintance with vast fields of knowledge has rarely, if ever, been rivalled. His amazing activity as a writer has been for long a source of wonder to his contemporaries; year after year books, pamphlets, and articles have issued from his pen in steady succession, and there was no department of philosophy which he thus left untouched. Naturally, this tremendous literary output is riot all of equal worth, but almost everything he wrote exhibits a surprising mastery of detail and power of turning it to account in reaching theoretical conclusions. As a teacher, too, his influence has been;extremely wide and far-reaching; students from all parts of the world met in his class-room, and worked in the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Leipzig, the foundation of which was due to him.