PSYC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychological Anthropology, Null Hypothesis, Vibraphone
15 Jan 2018
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People were exposed to standard repeatable situation and were asked to give responses (length of response, size, intensity) Visual representation had a slower response than audible (seeing the pendulum and hearing the bell) Anticipation plays an important role in reaction time. Early years: sensation and perception (visual and auditory stimuli most appropriately studied in the lab) Memory, attention and imagery (look at them in everyday circumstances. Thinking, a ect, voluntary activity and social psych must be studied in the real world. In the later part of wundt"s career he worked on psychological anthropology. Lab psych (experimentation, control, manipulation) vs. history, development of ideas, practices, language, religion (understand collectively how a group of people think) Look at one individual won"t tell us enough, must look at cultures and groups of people. Volkgeist group mind : recognized that in the same way individuals have free will, groups of people have a collective consciousness (societies have di erent ways of thinking and behaving)
