Control of Cognition and ActionSummary: Major research efforts of German Psychology at the beginning of the 20th century focussed on the control of cognition. The most relevant empirical and theoretical analyses were published by Müller and Pilzecker (...
Intention as a Psychic Process: Search for Traces in General Psychological ResearchSummary: According to Franz Brentano (1874) the main task of psychology is to examine the mind during the consideration of objects, intentions, and goals. However, during ...
The phrase becoming a science, as applied to the history of psychology, is at best a tendentious formulation of the status quaestionis. It presumes quite clearly that the direction of development has, indeed, been toward becoming more scientific. This ...