PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Time And Motion Study, Telephone Switchboard, Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
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Edward b. titchener (1867-1927: similar to wundt"s experimental psychology, distinguished psych from other disciplines such as physics. Muller-lyer illusion: >-< comparison between lines, the second one looks shorter but they are the same length: experience all together is independent of any particular person. Introspection: process by which individuals describe their experience: events that occurred in the nervous system were thought to run parallel to human experience, but did not cause them. (e. g. the nervous system is only a map to experience) Psychophysical parallelism: the fact that the nervous system runs parallel with human experience. Stimulus error: students were trained to avoid this type of error of describing the object rather than one"s experience of the object: his experimental psych can be divided into 2 parts: Qualitative: associated with introspectionism - the study of sensation, attention, perception, association of ideas.
