PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Universal Property, Franciscus Donders, Cognitive Psychology
17 Mar 2019
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Explain the experiment conducted by donders on reaction and decision speed. What is structuralism and who were the main researchers? (late 1800s) Answer knowledge from personal view or experience; perception; a thing known. how sensory information is transformed, stored, recovered and used. The knowledge you possess and the information in your memory. An operation on an external stimulus or an internal representation that changes it or creates a new one. We use specific behaviours to infer what is happening in the mind. Without it we cannot think. he believed that particulars were imperfect representations of the universal constructs. (specific dogs and dogness) Aristotle believed that particulars were components of the universal constructs and that we learn more about the universals by exploring the particulars. The first move into scientific research in psychology. Introspection was problematic because there was too much variability between subjects to accurately test anything. Explain forgetting curves and which theorist explored them.
