How did the Wurzburg school differ from Wundt’s voluntarism?
Wundt initial goal was to deduce the understanding toward the consciousness and the related experiences. He has also developed the understanding behind the dynamics of the mental laws, which are responsible to govern the consciousness. Wundt called the school of psychology as the voluntarism because it was founded on the choice, will and purpose. It was the first school of psychology.
The Wurzburg school was owned by the Oswald Kulpe. Wurzburg school showed the role of the mental sets in the problem solving. According to the Wurzburg school, problems are composed of the motivational properties. To attain the solution of a problem, subjects continuously apply their related mental operations.
Wurzburg school was found just opposite to the voluntarism school given by the Wundt as Wurzburg school showed the experimental study of the higher mental processes. Wurzburg school has challenged the voluntarists and the structuralists as well for the limited use of the method of the introspection.
Wurzburg school controversies have great impact on the promotion of the decline or collapse of the structuralism and the voluntarism. Members from the Wurzburg school presented the clear distinction between the mental acts and the mental contents and the thinking and the thoughts.