Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Franz Brentano, Experience Sampling Method, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

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Founder of psychology as a laboratory science in the 19th century. Rejected the notion that scientists could understand experience itself through the unaided self-observations of others. Experimental introspection confined to research concerning sensation and perception, in which lab instruments were used to vary the stimuli. Stimulus conditions were so controlled and the demands on the observer so limited that the process of observation came to resemble in all important respects external, ordinary perception. Tachistoscope a device for presenting visual stimuli for brief time periods. Used in wundt study by presenting simple coloured shapes and participants are asked questions about the shapes size and intensity: franz brentano. Inner perception the discrete noticing/glancing of what was happening to mental events as they occurred without interfering with them. The idea was to perceive indirectly, mental phenomena as they went about their business. Inner observation alternative to inner perception, the direct focusing on one"s inner mental life.