PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franciscus Donders, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Map
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How the mind achieves what it does. Decision making time = chocie reaction time - simple reaction time ~0. 1s. Mental responses need to be inferred from behavior. University of lipzig, germany structuralism (dominated psychology until early 1900s) overall expereince is determined by combining basic elements of experience (sensations) Wanted to do a periodic table of the mind analytic introspection: trained subjecs describe their experiences in terms of elementary mental elements and thought processes in response to stimuli. Not a fruitful approach and was subsequently abandoned in early 1900s studied behaviors and thought processes in response to stimuli under controlled conditions established psycholoy departments at many unis, u. s. and abroad. Memory (learning and forgetting) tested himself by learning nonsense syllables small savings is equivalant to more forgetting. Measured savings: t (original time to learn - time to re-learn after delay) Memory drops rapidly for the 1st 2 days after initial learning then levels off.
