Historical Figures Flashcards
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Wilhelm Wundt
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- Set up first psych lab
- Studied conscious experience
- Stimuli on response
- ‘Father of Psychology’
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Rene’ Descartes
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- Beginnings of cognitive psychology.
- Philosophical writings questioning human thought.
- “I think, therefor I am.”
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William James
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- Stream of consciousness theory
- Book: Principles of Psychology
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Immanuel Kant
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-Transcendental idealism theory.
What we experience can only be representations
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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- Cognitive processes of memory
- Remembering & Forgetting
- Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
