For Titchener, what were the goals of psychology?
Titchener was agreed with the Wundt that the study of psychology should be based on the immediate experiences that are the consciousness. Titchener described the consciousness as total of the mental experiences at a given time. According to him, our mind collects these mental experiences for the lifetime.
Titchener’s goals for the study of the psychology was to identify the why, how and what of the mental life. He used the process of introspection to deduce the ‘what’ of the mental life. His goal was to catalogue the basic mental elements behind the conscious experiences.
For the derivation of the ‘how’ of the mental life the combination of the elements was required to study and ‘why’ of the mental life was based on the search of the neurological processes related to the mental events. Titchener’s focus was on the description of the mental experiences. He also followed the belief of the Ernst Mach that there is no place for the speculation of the unobservable events.