PSY 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wilhelm Wundt, Scientific Method

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2101
• Professor: Jason Chein

Document Summary

History of cognitive psychology: psychology has a long past, but only a short history - ebbinghaus, 1879 1st psychology laboratory opened. Wilhelm wundt (germany, 1879: used scientific method to explore conscious experience, introspection: looking into the inside, trained observers attended to their own sensations, report results objectively , herman ebbinghaus. Human beings are active information processors: not automatons. Mental processes intervene between input (stimulus: stages of processing. Phonological processing: sound processing: top-down vs bottom-up processing. Top: conceptually driven, internally driven: serial vs.