PSY 1101 Chapter Notes -Telegraph Key, Psychological Science, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Prologue: psychology is a science that seeks to answer questions about us all how and why we think, feel, and act as we do. People responded in about one-tenth of a second when asked to press the key as soon as the sound occurred. In about two-tenths of a second when they were asked to press the key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving the sound (to be aware of one"s awareness takes a little longer) He was seeking to measure atoms of the mind the fastest and simplest mental processes. And how did these relate to one another. In 1890, over the objections of harvard"s president, james admitted mary whiton. James" writings moved the publisher henry holt to offer a contract for a textbook (principles of psychology) of the new science of psychology (the text took 12 years to finish)