Class one

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

Had the first psychology, lab
-believed structuralism: experience as determined by combining elements of experience called sensations
- His students use the method of analytic introspection: participants were trained to describe experiences and thought processes in a response to a stimuli

Question 2

How do people consciously experience the world?

Answer 2

1. Sensation: basic sensory.
2. Feeling: emotions that triggered from stimulus.
3. Images: mental representation.

Question 3

Ebbinghaus

Answer 3

• read list of nonsense syllables to see how many times needed until you could repeat without error
• learned a lot of different lists with a lot of different retention intervals
• discovered a lot of what we know about short-term memory

Question 4

John Watson

Answer 4

Direct observation approach.
Found problems with cognitive psychology:
1. variable results from person
2. Internal and therefore invisible, can’t verify.

Introduced behaviorism- study directly, observable behavior behaviors

Question 5

William James

Answer 5

• Observations based on functions of his own mind and not experiments
• considered many topics in cognition, thinking consciousness, attention, memory, perception, imagination, and reasoning

Question 6

Cognitive and Revolution

Answer 6

1. Measures of observable behavior.
2. Makes inferences about underlying cognitive activity.
3. Consider what the behavior says about how the mind works.

Question 7

Information processing approach

Answer 7

Wait to study the mind inspired by insights about computers.
- Information is processed in stages.
- Uses process models