PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Forgetting Curve, Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Timothy Racine

Document Summary

German, studied w/ muller and helmholtz, prof at leipzig. 2 reasons for fame: first experimental psyc lab, trained lots of students ideas spread. Established idea that you need 2 methods in psyc: lab-based experiments (for simple phenomena, naturalistic observation (for processes affected by social and cultural factors) Took method from established disciplines esp. chem. Still open to bias unless under controlled conditions. Keep as simple as possible: to replicate and to check observer"s observations with other observers". Used trained participants: told what they should experience. Metronome: each beat has the same physical, but different psychological characteristics: apperception: how we organize and make sense of experience. Perceptions are a creative synthesis of impressions: flow of experience is a sequence of stages/levels. Begin w/ apprehension: process of individual impressions entering consciousness. Span of apprehension: how many apprehensions we could be aware of at once (~6) Emotion and volition (acts of the will) related: will is an emotional process.