PSYC 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psycholinguistics, Epiphenomenalism, Naturwissenschaften
23 Jan 2018
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German circumstances at the time: uniqueness of german unis: you had empiricists vs. rationalistis, now arguing that subject experiences can actually be measured, tension with german philosophy, advances in, psychophysiology (muller, helmholtz, psychophysics (fechner, weber) If they are not linked meaningfully, then we can only hold about 4 6 things at once: but if they are meaningfully linked, then we can remember more things at once (e. g. , 514604519613 vs. 514-604-519-613 which are all area codes: when a picture of 4 columns by 4 rows array of letters flashed on the screen for. In schizophrenia, there is a loss of control over the associations: they are loose & chaotic: attentional processes are weak and the synthesis of the loose associations leads to bizarre conclusions. Dementia praecox: along with kraepelin, he studied active apperceptions in ppl with schizophrenia, wu(cid:374)dt"s stude(cid:374)t e(cid:373)il kraepelin (the founder of modern psychiatry)
