PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Forgetting Curve, Wilhelm Wundt, Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Lecture 2: psychology: the birth and early years. Germany was a strong country and believed they had to invest in research to stay strong so there were a lot of researchers there a lot of psychologists from the past are germans. Willhelm wundt was rst to call himself a psychology; wrote rst psychology textbook the. Loved introspection; founded the structuralist approach (really interested in seeing what you were seeing or feeling), which is not generally accepted because it"s not directly measurable and is a subjective measure vs objective (directly measuring with instrument) Darwin job was to collect specimens and categorize them based on what they looked like; he wanted to know why they looked the way they did, spread of functionalism. William james wondered how memory worked and paid attention to how his memory worked over the entire day; descriptions of how memory, consciousness, perception worked and how they were doing what they were doing.
