Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sensory Deprivation, Salfit, Psychodynamics
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Outline: introspection, william james"s characteristics of thinking, eric klinger"s dimensions of thinking (1990"s, daydreaming, harnessing daydreaming through guided imagery, sensory restriction. Introspection: introspection what goes on in our mind, franz brittano, can consciousness split so that part of it looks at the other part, observation of looking directly into consciousness, problem arose of consciousness splitting. William james: touted as the father of psychology in north america, had no use for this kind of glancing at the consciousness. We are behavioural organisms aimed to model behavior. Our theories of the mind/psyche have followed upon the advances of engineering. Late 1800"s: invention of steam engine fluid mechanics, freud"s psychodynamic theory humans are like bags of water. Of time: operations on mental representations mental processes, formal language in the computer for writing processes no proof of a formal language in the brain. I look outside and i see a blue sky contents of exp. Some knowledge of how the conscious mind works.