ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Demand Characteristics, Mental Age, Alfred Binet
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The foundation of the first laboratory of experimental psychology. German universities were reformed in the 19th century to make them more dynamic and advance the new sciences goals: wissenschaft (scholarship and scientific research) and bildung (the making of good citizens) Before, universities were dominated by humanities and religion. Wundt and the first laboratory of experimental psychology. 1879: first laboratory of experimental psychology birth of psychology. Shift in 19th century from deductive to inductive reasoning. Wundt was influenced by fechner"s work on psychophysics. Wundt"s lab was part of a network of laboratories. Consisted of a process by which a person looked inside and reported what he/she was sensing, thinking and feeling (already introduced by wolff) Based on the belief that people have conscious access to their own mental processes and can report them. Wundt made a distinction between internal perception (no valid scientific method) and experimental self- observation (valid scientific method to get info about the contents of consciousness: historical method.
