[PS260] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)
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A doctrine of association that explained mental life in two basic components: ideas - elements, associations links between elements. Made 3 laws of association: contiguity same in time and space, similarity alike conceptually, contrast opposites. Was the first to measure thinking time by looking at the time between a stimulus and different types of responses. Choice reaction time simple reaction time = decision time for a choice. They began to study of experimental psychology in the 1800"s. Created the concept of introspection: looking within to observe and record content of out mental lives, minimum interpretation. They studied the conscious mental events such as feelings, thoughts, perceptions and recollections. Problems: we have unconscious thoughts, testability, no objective facts. Tested his own memory and created a method that estimates the forgetting curve. Savings = original learning time learning time. Made a distinction between primary and secondary memory. 3: primary memory short term memory, secondary memory long term memory.
