Question

"Compare and contrast the work and research of Wilheim Wundt with the work and research of Edward Titchener. Make sure to identify the ways in which they are similar as well as how they are different. What events, ideas, and schools of thought contributed to the development of Voluntarism"

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt - Experimental psychology; believed in Objective Introspection.

Edward Titchener- Structuralism

Step-by-step explanation:

Wilhelm Wundt was a physiologist, professor, and philosopher and is also denoted as the founder of the "modern psychology" and became the first person who denoted himself as a "psychologist. He has initiated the work of "objective permanence" in the "University of Leipzig" in Germany during 1879.

Edward Titchener was a psychologist and he was one of the brilliant students of Wilhelm Wundt who has initiated his work with his teacher and carry out his work in future. Initially, he worked on objective permanence with Wilhelm Wundt and later on the developed a school of thought was being named as "Structuralism". Wilhelm Wundt referred this view as "Voluntarism".

Both of them were similar because they believed in the same idea that is the theory of "consciousness". whereas Titchener expanded it by describing the structure of mind which wasn't present in Wundt's idea.