PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Immanuel Kant, Spatial Memory, Memory Span

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Questions how knowledge is acquired, retained, needed and used. Many (perhaps all) of your encounters with the world depend your supplementing of your experience with knowledge that you bring to the situation (e. g. , story with all fact and memories are supplied to you) Cognitive revolution 1950s & 1960s change in the style of research used by most. Wilhelm wundt (1832 1920): father of psychology events (feelings, Introspection: look within to observe and record the content of lives and the sequence of our own experience. Psychology needed to be concerned with the study of conscious mental our mental. Wundt & titchner concluded this was the only way to study thoughts. Steps that take place in our brain (retrieving memories) takes place out of our thoughts and perceptions) awareness. For scientific study we need objective observations, non-biased. Psychology could not be considered a science if it relied on purely introspective methods. Organism"s behaviours are observable in the right way.