Week 1: part 1

Question 1

F.Donders?

Answer 1

experiment on reaction time

Question 2

Ebbinghaus?

Answer 2

repeated list of 13 nonsense syllables - relearning list after awhile - forgetting curve

Question 3

William Wundt?

Answer 3

structuralism and analytic introspection

Question 4

William James?

Answer 4

textbook - principles of psychology, didn’t agree with analytic introspection

Question 5

John Watson?

Answer 5

founder of behaviorism - classical conditioning

Question 6

Pavlov?

Answer 6

dog salivation experiment

Question 7

Colin Cherry?

Answer 7

audio experiment, attended message and unattended message

Question 8

David Broadbent?

Answer 8

flow diagrams of the mind with input (sound of both attended and unattended message) -> filter lets through attended message and filters out unattended message -> detector records information through filter

Question 9

John McCarthy?

Answer 9

program computers to mimic operation of human mind - artificial intelligence approach

Question 10

George Miller?

Answer 10

limits to the humans ability to process information - information processing of human mind is limited to about 7 items

Question 11

Skinner?

Answer 11

operant conditioning