MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Revolution, Wilhelm Wundt, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Founded one of the first labs in leipzig, germany. Ideas: introspection, psychology is a science, we can borrow methods from other scientists and apply them to psychology (e. g physics) Findings should then undergo peer review to be published in journals. Process: participants do 2 things at the same time (observe a clock and report when the bell rings) Found a delay between actual and reported time = speed of attention. Conclusion: we cannot focus on 2 things at the same time - takes roughly 0. 1 seconds to change from 1 thought to another. Evaluation of introspection: not always reliable (responses inconsistent between observers, possible bias (wundt was the observer in his own experiments, mental activities not transparent to introspection (learning, personality, development) Idea: everything that we do (e. g act, think, feel) can and should be regarded as behaviours, only overt behaviour can be scientifically studied, most behaviour is learned.
