PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Psychophysical Parallelism, Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology
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Introduction social psychology psychology elsewhere all time processes experimental, laboratory methods introspective psychology. We know our own minds directly, by looking latter was suitable for a scientific psychology 3. (cid:498)the looking into our own minds and reporting what we there discover(cid:499) was the most natural and obvious psychological method for james. (cid:886). Wundt made a distinction between self-observation and inner perception. Only the combination of simpler ones, just as nacl is the result of the combination of na and cl influenced by social and cultural factors. The tridimensional theory of feeling how the emotion of was expressed familiar and eventually pleasant. Psychophysical parallelism proposed by fechner (chapter 4) noxious situations until we reach a decision. Cultural psychology obtained through studying individuals in the laboratory between general ideas and particular words inevitably a product of social and historical forces objective methods to the study of psychological processes.