PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gestalt Psychology, Franz Brentano, Morrill Land-Grant Acts
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Recall: wundt"s: appropriate for studying higher mental processes . July 2nd, 2014: studied through analysis of the products of social relations looks at implicit parts of culture language, myths, and customs, cannot be studied in the lab field study is more appropriate. Sometimes you accidentally say something without thinking: wundt"s philosophy of science, wundt @ leipzig, language cannot be studied quantitatively in the lab, k lpe @ w rzburg, language and complex mental processes can be studied using systematic experimental introspection. You want to avoid changing the experience through the act of reporting. More to the w rzburg school than critiques of wundt. Cognitive processes and deliberate actions: types of tasks: The methods are more sophisticated than the ones at leipzig: word association. Free association: participant sees a word, and is told to say the first word that comes to mind (e. g. Rule-based association: adds limits to the association (e. g.
