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It critiques two prominent historical definitions—psychology as the science of mind and as the science of inner experience—arguing that modern psychology must use its own methods and should not rely on metaphysical assumptions. The text reframes “inner” and “outer” experience as different viewpoints on a single unitary experience, explaining how content and apprehension form the basis for psychological treatment.","Outlines of Psychology By Wilhelm Max Wundt  \nEtext Conversion By  \nNalanda Digital Library  \nRegional Engineering College,Calicut,India  \nOutlines of Psychology-Wilhelm Max Wundt  \nContents-Click on the Links Below or Use  \nBookmarks  \nIntroduction  \n1. Problem of Psychology  \n2. General Theories of Psychology  \n3. Methods of Psychology  \n4. General Survey of the Subject  \nI. Psychical Elements  \n5. Chief Forms and General Attributes of  \nPsychical Elements  \n6. Pure Sensations  \n7. Simple Feelings  \nII. Psychical Compounds  \n8. Definition and Classification of Psychical  \nCompounds  \n9. Intensive Ideas  \n10. Spacial Ideas  \n11. Temporal Ideas  \n12. Composite Feelings  \n13. Emotions  \n14. Volitional Processes  \nEtext Conversion Project-Nalanda Digital Library 2  \nOutlines of Psychology-Wilhelm Max Wundt  \nIII. Interconnections of Psychical Compounds  \n15. Consciousness and Attention  \n16. Associations  \n17. Apperceptive Combinations  \n18. Psychical States  \nIV . Psychical Developments  \n19. Psychical Attributes of Animals  \n20. Psychical Development of the Child  \n21. Development of Mental Communities  \nV . Psychical Causality and Its Laws  \n22. Concept of Mind  \n23. Psychological Laws of Relations  \n24. Psychological Laws of Development  \nEtext Conversion Project-Nalanda Digital Library 3  \nOutlines of Psychology-Wilhelm Max Wundt  \nINTRODUCTION  \n1. PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGY  \n1. Two definitions of psychology have been the most prominent in the history of this science . According to one, psychology is the \"science of mind\", psychical processes being regarded as phenomena from . which it is possible to infer the nature of an underlying metaphysical mind-substance. According to the other, psychology is the \"science of inner experience\"; psychical processes are here looked upon as belonging to a specific form of experience, which is readily distinguished by the fact that its contents are known through \"introspection\", or through the \"inner sense\" as it is called if one uses the phrase phrase which has been employed to distinguish introspection from sense-perception through the outer senses .  \nNeither of these definitions, however, is satisfactory to the psychology of today. The first or metaphysical definition belongs to a period of development that lasted longer in this science than  \nEtext Conversion Project-Nalanda Digital Library 4  \nOutlines of Psychology-Wilhelm Max Wundt  \nin others. But is here, too, forever left behind, since psychology has developed into an empirical discipline, operating with methods of its own; and since the \"mental sciences\" have gained recognition as a great department of scientific investigation, distinct from the sphere the natural sciences, and requiring as a general groundwork an independent psychology, free from all metaphysical theories .  \n[p. 2] The second or empirical definition, which sees in psychology a \"science of inner experience\", is inadequate because it may give rise to the misunderstanding that psychology has to do with objects totally different from the objects of socalled \"outer experience\". It is, indeed, true that there are certain contents of experience which belong in the sphere of psychological investigation, and are not to be found among the objects and processes studied by natural science; such are our feelings, emotions, and decisions . 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A stone, a plant, a tone, a ray of light, are, when treated as natural phenomena, objects of mineralogy, botany, physics, etc. In so far, however, as they are at the same time ideas, they are objects of psychology, for psychology seeks to account for the genesis of these ideas, and for their relations, both to other ideas and to those psychical processes, such as feelings, volitions, etc., which are not refe","cbCaip3zTJrea1wB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip3zTJrea1wB","pdf",1477265,1,653,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Problem of Psychology\n## General Theories of Psychology\n## Methods of Psychology\n## General Survey of the Subject\n## Psychical Elements\n## Psychical Compounds\n## Interconnections of Psychical Compounds\n## Psychical Developments\n## Psychical Causality and Its Laws","[{\"question\":\"What does the text say psychology is, according to two historical definitions?\",\"answer\":\"It describes psychology either as the “science of mind” (inferring an underlying metaphysical mind-substance) or as the “science of inner experience” studied via introspection/inner sense.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are the two historical definitions considered unsatisfactory by the author?\",\"answer\":\"The “science of mind” view belongs to an older, metaphysical development, while psychology has become empirical with its own methods. 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