PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mary Whiton Calkins, Stimulus Modality, Explicit Memory
10 Dec 2017
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Refers to any change in the potential of people to alter their behavior as a consequence of the experience of regularities in the environment. Advanced by german researchers, kohler, wertheimer and koffka. Suggested that strictly reductistic approaches to mental life were incomplete. The whole is different from the sum of its parts . Memories are built up of a configuration of simpler elements to take on a new. Also noted the the observed behaviour of people depends on both the context in which quality. Hindsight bias they find themselves, as well as a frame of reference. Idea that mental representations are isomorphic - their mental structure and operation are analogous to the structure and function of information in the world. Idea is clearly seen when spatial of a memory trace reflects the structure of the event, as it would be experienced, although the memory is not as complete.
