PSYC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Mckeen Cattell, Developmental Psychology, Mary Whiton Calkins
11 Oct 2016
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New technology like press lead towards literature, letters and diary was a new sense of self expression, clear mirrors. New family life with intimacy, privacy, affection-based marriages, and eventually a concept of childhood. Advancing markets and self-regulation for profit and advancement in capitalism. Associationism is the theory that the mind is composed of elements -- usually referred to as sensations and ideas -- which are organized by means of various associations. Although the original idea can be found in plato, it is aristotle who gets the credit for elaborating on it. Considered and debated issues of relevance to psychology. This included: separation of mind and body as well as whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism) His ideas like theory of memory, was proposed hundreds of years ago and still crucial to many of toda(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:373)po(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:455) theo(cid:396)ies of (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) His conception of memory memories are a result of three principles of association; similarity, contrast, frequency, contiguity.
