PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Edward B. Titchener

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Aristotle: theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality, suggestions. Meal creates gas that makes us sleepy, heat creates personality. William wundt: time lag between hearing a ball and pressing a key. About one tenth of a second after, but two tenths when asked to press at the same time: seeked to measure atoms of the mind, fasted simple mental process, first psychological laboratory. Titchener: aimed to discover mind"s structure, engaged people in self reflective introspection (looking inward), training them to report elements of their experiences , proved unreliable. James: consider evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings, under influence of darwin, assumed development happened through adaptation. They serve functions: exploration of sown to earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment to moment streams of consciousness, wrote principles in psychology textbook. Calkins: admitted to james" seminar, everyone else dropped out, denied harvard phd although outscored, first female president of apa.