PSY270H1 Chapter 1: PSY270 Chapter 1 reading notes

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology: the branch that studies the psychology of the mind. Measuring how long it takes to make a decision. 2 models: tested with only one light on screen. Press button whenever light appears: with two lights, left or right. Have to decide which button to push when light appears. The time to make a decision is the subtraction of these two measurements. Ebbinghaus: measured how long it takes to forget saving"s method. Basically, how many times you repeat to learn, then how many times it takes you to repeat to relearn after a certain interval are the 2 variants. Noticed that the savings are greater when the waiting interval in between is shorter. Both donders and ebbinghaus measured behavior to determine mind. Wundt: german, set up first psychology lab. Structuralism purely studies the subjective observation of the conscious, by using the method of analytic introspection.