What distinction did Titchener draw between consciousness and mind?
Titchener defined consciousness and mind in his own sense. He said that consciousness is the experience, one feels at a given instant. A mind is something that bears all the experience of an individual over his or her lifetime.
Consciousness is the sum up of all the experience at a given time, and mind is the sum up of all the experiences gathered throughout a lifetime. They are both very similar except at one point.
Consciousness is the state at which all mental processes happen at a given moment, while the mind has the sum up or total of these processes. Titchener was only interested in the academic knowledge of psychology. Applied psychology according to him, was not required to study.
According to him, psychology was not a science to treat people with mental illness or to bring some kind of a change in the society. He believed research scholars should have no speculation about the work they do. For this reason, he opposed the study of animal and child psychology. Any other area which did not fit his introspective framework was also discouraged.