Exam 2 Study Flashcards
Who created the first experimental psychology lab
Wilhelm Wundt
What is Wilhelm Wundt primarily credited with
Beginning experimental psychology as a science
Wilhelm Wundt separated ____ from ____ by using the _____ _____
psychology form philosophy by using the experimental method
What was Wilhelm Wundts proposed model?
Voluntarism
What did voluntarism emphasize
the minds power to organize mental contents
who defined psychology as the study of conscious experience
Wilhelm Wundt
What were Wilhelms wundts goals for psychology
- identify basic elements of consciousness
- determine principles of their organization
- analyze how elements combine into conscious experinece
What two types of experinece did Wilhelm Wundt emphisize
Mediate and Immediate experinece
what was mediate experience
indirect, influenced by interpretation suggesting that the experince is mediated by recording devices ex: using instruments to measure something
what was immediate experience
Direct, unbiased experience, psychology should pay more attention to this one, (ex: feeling warmrth without analyzing it)
What is apperception and who started it
Wilhelm Wundt: the active process of orgnaizing mental elements into a meaningful whole (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts)
what were Wundts elements of consciousness
sensations and feelings
what were sensations to wundt
aroused through the five senses, lead to perception
waht were feelings to wundt
subjective complements of sensations
