PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes -Motor Cognition, Saul Sternberg, Wilhelm Wundt
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Psyb57 chapter 1: how the brain gives rise to the mind: cognitive psychology: internal representations (ideas, models inside the mind) Rene descartes distinction btw mind and body (qualitatively distinct, ex, heat vs light) John locke thought is a series of mental images. Oswald kulpe demonstrated that mental images do not always accompany mental activity. A mental image = signaled by the experience of perceiving when the. Appropriate sensory input is absent, creates the experience of seeing with the. Some types of mental activity (those that occur as you understand words) are unconscious not accompanied by mental images. William james: functionalist psychologist , focused not on the nature of mental activity but on the functions of specific mental activities (p6) Introspection: process of internal perception, looking within oneself to assess one"s mental activity. Head of 1st modern psychology laboratory, germany, late 19th century. Extended approach to cover not only sensations & feelings but also mental activity.
