PSYC 4008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reflex Arc, Experimental Psychology, Meritocracy
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Lewin: studied children, laissez faire leadership (no leader, democratic leadership (best leadership) Represented a minor current in american psychology. Focused on explaining the structural of the adult mind. Americans were interested in behavior and mental processes, individual differences. Follows wudnt, wants to explain human mnd. Uses analogy: structuralism is like anatomy and function is like physiology. Tichtner emphasized a complicated type of introspection: incorporates introspection and self-observation into his technique, uses these two to describe what took place in the laboratory, introspective happened. What were his three primaries and what did they lead to: what is it about american culture that functionalism attractive, need to know key contributions of chicago and columbian psychologists, chicago. What is he best known for: reflex arc, advocate for early education. Studied in europe, worked with wudnt and galton. Early pioneer of early testing and credited for the term mental test (what is thais)
