01:830:312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Empiricism, Edward Thorndike

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:312
• Professor: matzel

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So the dog follows a path that has been obscured by the passage of time and all of its consequences. Does he have rational intentions? (the dog must be able to read my mind to know my intentions. : exceptional vision, coupled with memory, coupled with rational. 3. intentions and knowledge of where i want to go. Some keen sense of spatial orientation, coupled with memory, combined with rational intentions and knowledge of where i want to go: smell of himself from six months ago. Maybe he would naturally follow his own scent: other, i. e. , we don"t know what we can"t imagine, prior learning that we follow the trail of others. In this case, the trail could be the scent of the recent passage of humans. Some historical antecedents : rene" descartes (~1630, the british empiricists (1650-1800, hermann ebbinghaus (1850-1900)