Titchener, Edward

(1867 - 1927) - American psychologist. Leader of the structural school, which considers the subject of the psychology of consciousness, explore, through the dismemberment of the elements of what is given to the subject of his introspection, in order to then find out the universal laws, according to the Eye-one structure is taking shape. By introspection, according to T., it should be understood not ordinary introspection, but a special, produced by a training capacity to describe the facts of consciousness as such, apart from the external objects are represented by the consciousness. T. distinguished between three categories of elements: a feeling (the simplest process, which has the quality, intensity, clarity, activity), the image and sense. Rejecting the conclusions of the Wurzburg school that a true thinking is free from images, T. advanced contextual theory of meaning, according to Roy-any knowledge about the object is constructed of a combination of sensory elements. In the case, . when much of the elements is not recognized, . it forms the context, . K-rum is a sensory nucleus (special attention was paid to muscular sensations), . taking on the function of a deputy, . his mark, . acquires meaning through this context.,
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