PSY 101 Chapter 1.2: Module 1.2 Steven Barnhart Introduction to Psychology Textbook, Early Psychology
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1879 established the first psychology laboratory in leipzig, germany. Used introspection to describe/study the components of experience: introspection: looking within oneself. Functionalism: learn how people produce useful behaviors. Structuralism: an attempt to describe the structures that compose the mind: sensations, image, feelings. In the late 1800s and 1900s psychologists studied vision and other sensations because they wanted to understand mental experience. Psychologists discovered major differences between physical stimuli and psychological perceptions: psychophysical function: the mathematical description of the relationship between the physical stimulus and its perceived properties. If human and other species share a common ancestor, other animals should share features in common with humans: comparative psychologists: specialists who compare different animal species. Psychologists thought they could use tests to measure animal intelligence such as the delayed-response problem and the detour problem. Delayed-response problem: an animal sees or hears a signal indicating where it can find food.
