Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Brentano, Experience Sampling Method, Electronic Paper

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

Document Summary

Modern beginnings: wilhelm wundt founder of psychology as laboratory science, experimental introspection, however, stimulus conditions were so controlled and demands on observer so limited that process of observation became too like external and ordinary perception. Inner perception discrete noticing of what was happening to mental events as they occurred without interfering with them. Practical applications: determine scope of metacognition ability to know something of our own cognitive processes, experience sampling method participants wear electronic paper that goes off at random. Independent existence of material reality is cornerstone of materialism. Daydreaming: william james daydreaming = spontaneous thought, sigmund freud daydreams = fanciful, daydreaming helps keep us organized and rehearse for possible future scenarios. Jerome singer daydreams = internally focused: also with personal growth and creative expression. Wat(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g (cid:448)iole(cid:374)t programs could increase their aggressive heroic daydreaming style, which is daydreams about heroes and what one would do to disliked person)