PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Johann Friedrich Herbart, Unconscious Mind, Experimental Psychology
9 May 2018
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Lecture 44
One of Herbart’s primary goals was to describe the mind in mathematical
terms just as Newton had described the physical world.
c. Apperceptive Mass
i. According to Herbart, the cluster of interrelated ideas of which
we are conscious at any given moment.
ii. Apperceptive mass contains all ideas to which we are
attending.
iii. Competition – ideas outside of the apperceptive mass (an idea
of which we are not conscious) will be allowed to enter the
Apperceptive mass only if it is compatible with the other ideas
contained there at the moment.
1. Repression - is the force used to hold incompatible ideas
in the unconscious.
2. If enough similar ideas are repressed in the unconscious,
the combine their energy and force their way into the
consciousness.
3. limen (threshold) the border between the conscious and
the unconscious mind.
iv. Educational Psychology
1. Advice to teachers.
a. Review the material that has already been learned.
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