PSY 515 Lecture Notes - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Academic Freedom, Wilhelm Wundt
10 Apr 2020
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Chapter 4 short answers: in the 19th century the german system of higher education developed a philosophy that came to be known as wissenschaft. The essence of this philosophy encourage scholars to take a scientific approach to nature. Groups of compatible ideas gathered in consciousness: use the chapter"s temperature example to distinguish between immediate and mediate conscious experience. Internal perception (introspection) awareness of simple experiences and self-observation awareness of and examination of life experiences through reflection. Self-observation can be used to study though high mental process: make up some numbers to show that you understand how ebbinghaus used the method of savings in his memory research. Used to measure memory after the passgte of time. Ex: 20 minutes original learning 10 minutes relearning = 10. 50% of the original learning time would be saved: how did g. e. m ller"s approach to the study of memory differ from that of. Prototype because amount of time spent in the lab.
