PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Franciscus Donders, Implicit Stereotype
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Perceives, attends, ignores, remembers, forgets, imagines, creates, communicates, thinks, reasons. 1850 franciscus donders task 1, person sits in front of a visual display and the task is to hit a button whenever he sees a flicker of light. His reaction was measured task 2, then the person was presented either a light on the left or right and they had to hit the corresponding button. Variability: one person"s impressions are often very different from another"s, e. g how they see red is different. Verification it is impossible for others to access ones introspection reliance on consciousness: many internal events are unconscious, e. g implicit bias impossible to access the processes that produce the thoughts. Skinner, j. b. watson: stimulus black box response, psychology is the science of behaviour, emphasis on what can be directly observed stimuli response. Positive and negative reinforcements ignore the unobservable mind: goal.
