Question

Wundt argues that there is a clear connection between the outside world and the mind. Why do you think previous philosophers have discredited such a connection?

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt the founder of Structuralism, as a school of psychology seeks to analyze the adult mind (the total sum of experience from birth to the present). In simplest term, definable components and then finding how these components fit together to form more complex experiences as well as how they correlated to physical events. To do this, psychologists employ introspection, self-reports of sensations, views, feelings, emotions, etc He argues that what we percieve in our mind is all about our early experiences in the world.Several factors is responsible for such perception such as, past experiences, through learning etc.

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Criticism --- Previous philosophers have discredited that self-analysis was not feasible, since introspective students cannot appreciate the processes or mechanisms of their own mental processes. Introspection, therefore, depending on different results who was using it and what they were seeking. Some critics also pointed out that introspective techniques actually resulted in retrospection – the memory of a sensation rather than the sensation itself. It is believe that the mind could be dissected into its individual parts, which then formed conscious experience. This also received criticism from the Gestalt school of psychology, which argues that the mind cannot be broken down into individual elements. It act as a whole. One of the basic laws proposed by the Gestalt psychologists in the principle of figure- ground relatioships, which states that we organize stimuli into figure and ground. For example we se a picture on a wall as a figure and the wall as a ground.

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