Although this series is primarily intended to delve into video footage dug up from archives around the internet of classical experiments that have shaped psychology as a science today, we’d like to start with a few segments acknowledging the contribution of three prominent psychologists. Their work preceded the easy availability of video recording technology.
In this section, we’ll be seeing:
1) Wilhelm Wundt and E. Titchener: Structuralism
William James: Functionalism
2) Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung: Psychoanalysis
3) Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Kohler: Gestalt Psychology and The Mentality of Apes