Physiology seeks to derive the processes... by Wilhelm Wundt

Consciousness Psychologist Structuralism father of psychology research methods

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Other quotes by Wilhelm Wundt

Character Now

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Class Present

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Marathon Name Present Sense Years

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology Value

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Science

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

- Wilhelm Wundt

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