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What is ‘Stimulus’?
Sensory input from the environment
What is ‘Reaction Time’?
Amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
Opened the first psychological laboratory
What is ‘Consciousness?
Person’s subjective experience of the world
and the mind
What is ‘Structuralism’?
Analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind
Who was Edward Titchener?
- Pioneered introspection
- The analysis of subjective experience by trained observers
What is the problem with Introspection?
- Each person’s inner experience was an
inherently private event - No way to tell if a person’s description of her experience was accurate, or if their experience
was the same/different from someone
else’s
Who was Timothy Wilson?
- Believed psychology is a science
- Much of psychology is based on carefully controlled experimentation using randomization procedures
Who was Charles Darwin?
Natural selection: Theory that features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to subsequent generations
Who were Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Janet?
Studied hysteric patients through hypnosis
