PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interference Theory, Forgetting Curve, Carl Stumpf

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Psychology"s rst school (not structuralism); placed emphasis on will, choice, and purpose. Rst experimental psychology lab, rst journal of psychology research, trained the rst generation of experimental psychologists. There are two basic types of mental experiences, sensations and feelings: sensations include visual, auditory, taste, experiences, all sensations are accompanied by feelings (intensities, i. e. how loud the auditory stimulus is) Formulated the tri-dimensional theory of feelings: any feeling that can be described in terms of the degree to which they possess these attributes (pleasantness, unpleasantness, excitement-calm, and strain-relaxation) Apperception is active and voluntary, and under the individual"s control (unlike perception, which is passive and automatic) Viewed the mind as active, creative, dynamic, and volitional. Science is what can be observed through introspection of conscious events: modi ed his version of introspection by the end of his career to allow subjects to describe their phenomenological experiences.