PSYCH 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Universal Grammar, Pangs, Tabula Rasa
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Philosophers (like aristotle) theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality > incorrect guesses, but asked the right questions. Wilhelm wundt - created an experimental apparatus that measured the time lag between people"s hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key. 1/10 second > when asked to press key as soon as sound occurred. 2/10 second > when asked to press key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving the sound to be aware of one"s awareness takes a little longer. Sought to measure atoms of the mind - the fastest and simplest mental processes. Structuralism and functionalism - new science of psychology became organized into different branches (schools of thought) Structuralism: aimed to discover the mind"s structure. Titchener: engaged people in self-reflective introspection (looking inward) William james: assumed that thinking, like smelling, developed because it was adaptive > contributed to our ancestors" survival influenced by darwin"s evolutionary theories.
