Psyc 210

Activity Five

This week we you should focus on the following study questions and be sure to post your thoughts on a good answer for at only one of them:

1. Discuss the social context (zeitgeist) surrounding the beginnings of scientific psychology in 19th century Germany. Show how specific psychological theories or practices arose against the context of other specific ideas (philosophical, religious, political, ...) in this context.

2. Provide a thorough overview of Wundt's perspective on psychology. Discuss the major approaches (or worldviews) to psychology that he used, while also making use of important concepts from the lecture and the text book.

Key Concepts: Counter-Enlightenment, Monads, Creative Synthesis, Apperception, Mental chronometry, Weber-Fechner function, Immediate vs. Mediate experience, Psychological Parallelism, Völkgeist.

Make a post on the discussion board showing the points you have as an answer and also be sure to reply to at least one other person's post.