PSYCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Hindsight Bias, Confounding, Positive Psychology
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Module 1- psychology: first laboratory (in germany) December 1979 @ university of leipzig: 2 men help wilhelm wundt, a middle aged professor, create an experimental apparatus. Measured the time lag between people"s hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key. People responded in about 1/10th of a second when asked to press the key as soon as the sound occurred and in approx. 2/10ths of a second when asked to press the key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving the sound. Wundt was seeking to measure atoms of the mind [fastest and simplest mental processes] Psychology developed into different schools of thought, the earliest were: structuralism and functionalism. Structuralism- promoted by wundt and titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. Functionalism- promoted by james and influenced by darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function. How they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.
