PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Forgetting Curve, Franz Brentano, Mary Whiton Calkins
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Self observation: casually engaged by everyone ; open to bias. Inner perception: involves deliberately observing one"s own mental processes. He founded the first laboratory in experimental psychology. Wundt believed that you could discover mental elements through introspection by using introspection combined with the experimental method. He made a distinction between two types of introspection: Wanted to keep his experiments simple so that he could use them over and over again. Used a metronome; determined our consciousness is rhythmically disposed. The rhythmic way we experience beats: apperception how we organize and make sense out of our experience. Creative synthesis: through apperception, our experience becomes a unified whole and not just a series of elementary sensations. Wundt found that by manipulating the speed of the metronome, you can discover a set of basic feelings. Wundt believed emotion was a central aspect to all psychological processes. Close relationship between emotion and volition: acts of will.
