PSYC 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Franciscus Donders, Voxel, Interference Theory
16 Feb 2017
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Cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. The mind creates and controls mental capacities such as: perception, attention, memory, creates representations of the world that enable us to function. Early experimental research on the mind: donders (simple vs. choice reaction time, ebbinghaus (the forgetting curve for nonsense syllables) Operation of the mind can not be observed directly, and must be inferred from what we can measure: behaviour, physiological responding. First laboratory of scientific psychology: founded by wundt (concerned largely with studying the mind: structuralism was the dominant theoretical approach, analytic introspection was the major method used to collect data. William james used observations of his own mind as the basis of his textbook, principles of. 20th century: john watson founded behaviorism partly in reaction to structuralism and analytic introspection: procedures based on classical conditioning.
