PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
27 Sep 2017
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This is why fechner = not father of modern psychology. Sound of bell + sight of pendulum cannot attend to both stimuli simultaneously. Time to register both stimuli = 1/8 of a second. D. k. attending to grid while boss was tracking the clock switching between two visual stimuli took second (why he got fired) Established first laboratory focused on psychological activity, not physiological. Investigated foundations of psychology: sensation and perception, attention, feeling, reaction, association. Founding a school of thought = deliberate, intentional act. His field (cultural psychology) had little impact on american psychology: bad timing and prominence of other areas of interest. Introspection used to examine conscious experiences; used highly trained observers. Feelings = another form of experience that complements sensations. Do not arise directly from sense organs emerges within self. Tridimensional theory of feelings feelings based on 3 dimensions: Wundt trained researchers to focus on immediate experience, not mediate* Demonstrate the atoms of the mind : pleasure/displeasure, tension/relaxation, excitement/depression.
