PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wilhelm Wundt, Mary Whiton Calkins
13 Feb 2018
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Prehistoric records, brain largely unchanged since prehistoric times, roots of psych == philosophy, descartes -- dualism, plato -- nativism, aristotle -- philosophical empiricism, method of loci, naturally org things spatially. Take adv of this by org things in each location (ie. going through things in your house: socrates -- writing will destroy memory, simonides -- originator of method of loci (memory palace) During a catastrophe, the palace fell and bodies everywhere, could figure out who was who by remembering where everyone was sitting: middle ages: christian monks, elaborative encoding -- ** part of educational system. Lots of individual variability: method of loci : for scriptures and religious texts, rhymes, emphasis on use of bizarre imagery, roots of psychology == physiology, psychology: a discipline is founded, wilhelm wundt. First psych txbk: first memory study: nonsense syllables, hermann ebbinghaus. Psychoanalytic theory : unconscious mental processes shape feelings, thoughts, behaviors: new schoosl develop, behavioralism:
