PSYCH 120A Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward B. Titchener, Cognitive Revolution, Wilhelm Wundt
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Many of your encounters with the world depend on your supplementing your experience with knowledge that you bring to the situation. Amnesia: someone, because of brain damage, has lost the ability to remember certain materials. Hm could recall memories from before surgery but not after. Uncle"s death which occurred after the surgery caused the same amount of grief each time it was revealed to hm; inability to form new memories prevented adjustment to and subsiding of grief. Could not comment on his sense of self without new memories. Our self concept depends on our knowledge. Emotional adjustments to the world rely on our memories. Ability to understand any of our experiences depends on supplementing with knowledge. Shift in style of research initially for studying problems of memory, decision making, etc which later shifted over to other domains. Psychology cannot study the mental world directly.
