chapter 6 Flashcards
The 19th century brought forth what to psychology…
- physiology -phrenology, brain injury studies
- Physics…I dunno
- mathmatics and stats- Galton
- foundation for later explosion of discoveries
Introspection incorporates two things:
Self-observation and Inner perception
Aspect of self observation
can be done by anyone and is open to personal bias
aspects of inner perception
deliberate observation of own processes and is subjective unless under controlled conditions
The metronome experiment demonstrated that…
1, 2, 3..example of 3
- COnscousness is rhythmically disposed like our lives
- same physical characteristics but the psychological are diff (2nd beat sounds like tock not tick)
- Change context of sound and our experience of it changes (i.e. that sound in middle of night might make you mad- during day no)
after apperception and unifies experience as a whole…explains why easier to remember categories of things
creative synthesis
span of apprehension is similar to
digit span
individual impressions that enter ones consciousness
apprehension
4 aspects of metronome experiment
- apperception
- creative synthesis
- apprehension
- span of apprehension
one of the first experiments to have an unchanging stimulus…but required…
metronome…trained observer to prevent odd results
Dimensions of Tridimensional theory of feeling
- tension-relief
- excitement-depression
- pleasantness- unpleasantness
anatomical evidence of tridimensional theory of feeling:
thalamus relay between….
1._______(decision making)
2._______ (fight or flight
thalamus relay between: Prefrontal cortex (decision making) and Amygdala (fight or flight)
Wundt believed ______ was central to ____________ like wolstencraft
emotion was central to all psychological processes
Wundt curve demonstrates….and implies that you will get the most_______from ___________ stimulus intensity
intensity of stimulus and pleasantness
pleasure from moderate stim intensity
Wundt agreed there is a physical process that occurs with psychological but did not say it was count-for-count like fechner- you could not…because mental structures have their own
explain psychological by explaining physical. because mental structures have their own laws.
Wundt thought studying children was
pointless lol
Wundt pointed out that language is______ but it does not have to be________. Idea of ____ _____
thought but it does not have to be verbal- idea of silent thought
culrtural or folk psychology was intended to …
Now thought of as ….
trace the evolution of mans mind to account for ‘special aspect’
Sociology
- summarized the forgetting curve.
- Measured relationship between duration since learning and time to relearn
ebbinghaus
ebbinghaus found ____ associations formed between all….not just…
associations between all items on the list- not just adjacent ones.
created first standardized measure of memory
ebbinghaus
whiten calking did what
- first fem spa press
- invented paired association task to study memory
ebbinghaus studied nonsensical words to prevent
associations with actual words from interfering with memory/ research data
calkins paired associations looked strength of …and role of ______ & ………
associations, frequency and repititions
Calkins thoughts on study of psychology and self
- psychology is study of self
- self is a totality (many characteristics)
- unique to each person
- identical to self from 10 years ago and yet
- changing being
