PSYCO104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology, Voluntary Action

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Peter Lee

Document Summary

To understand how voluntary action is formed. To discover the basic elements of thought. To discover how the laws that operate on elements of thought combine to form more complex mental processes. To understand how voluntary action is formed took into account the thought meter. this showed that people are 1/10th of a second off when changing their attention from one thing to another. Rule of extraneous events for (effect) occurrence. Causation is a physics law that gives u an expected outcome such as a domino falling. Also causation can see someone making choice and can see the stimulation. In between this cause and effect the 1/10th delay applies. This time allows a lot of random stuff to happen which voids causation which voids psychology from other types of science. There is too much happening in brain to describe. Sensations are described in terms of modality and intensity. Feelings accompany sensations and describe how pleasant/unpleasant, excitable/ calming, strained/relaxed the sensation is.