PSY 3109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ideomotor Phenomenon, Will, Experimental Psychology
1 Feb 2020
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Will/freewill/willpower: ability for agents to make choices free of constraint. E. g. will to not give into temptation/sin. Internal control: keeping righteous via yourself rather than relying on external deity; the energy inside yourself to achieve this. Resisting temptation: temperance movement to control self, movement behind prohibition, hiding your body, etc. Wundt (founding father of experimental psychology): actions start off as voluntary and willed, and then they can become involuntary habits. Conscious subjective feeling that your are exerting willpower voluntarily in the beginning = sensation of innervations . Many of his students did experiments on will (e. g. lange) W. james (founding father of modern psychology), most contributed to will: Deliberate vs decisive: disagreed with wundt that all actions start off voluntarily; believed some actions are automatic, called ideo-motor actions (e. g. reflexes) Fiat = actions that are indeed conscious responses, comes after the ideo-motor action/intention. 1: deliberate between the options of repose (ideo-motor instinct, or fiat conscious decision)
