PSYCH 120H Lecture Notes - Lecture 98: Psychoanalysis, George Sperling, Lightner Witmer
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Later, right before he started psychology, what subject was his professorial posiion in? (hint: md-physiology- His professorial posiion, before studying psychology, was in scieniic. In wundt"s experiment concerning the pendulum and the bell, what was. The thought meter was supposed to measure the ime it takes to voluntarily switch atenion from one simulus [or modality] to another (the bell). Suppose to measure where you see the bell when you recognized that you hear the bell. How long it took to shit atenion from sight to sound (one simulus to another): 81. Immediate experiences is subject mater that is directly studied as it occurs. Wundt believed that higher process couldn"t be studied because they were unconscious and complex. Wundt believed psychology was not a mental science, while on the other hand the natural sciences are. He believed that psychology was not a material science because of consciousness.
