PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Wilhelm Wundt, Associationism, Edward B. Titchener
18 Sep 2014
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Information from the outside world flows through our system, we want to look at how all that works: memory structures in an abstract way, restrictions in the flow of information. Mind processes help us to know how to read words and form words this letters. Plato: greek philosopher and student of socrates, had a theory of forms. We do not perceive the real world, but an image of it. We are born with innate knowledge of the world. Structures reflect specific representations of the physical world: coding was not considered. Ideas and images that we form: knowledge and experience can actually change what we perceive next. Big step that was lost for a while: empiricism: British empiricists: philosophers who adopted aristotle"s view waaaay later. Stored knowledge=structures: empirical roots, structuralism, study of the structures of consciousness, wundt. Made one of the first north american labs. Tried to avoid the stimulus error (describe mental experience not physical stimulus: problems with introspection.
