History Of Psych Ch 9

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Act psychology

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name given to Brentano's brand of psych cuz it focused on metnal operations or functions. act psych dealt with the interaction between mental processes and physical events.

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Brentano

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believed introspection should be used to understand the functions of the mind rather than its elements. position became act psych.

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clever hans phenomenon

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creation of apparently hiigh level intelligent feats by nonhuman animals by consciously or unconsciously furnishing them with subtle clues that guide their behavior

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context theory of meaning

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tichener's contention that a sensation is given meaning by the images it elicits. that is for Titchener, meaning is determined by the law of contiguity.

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Titchener

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created the school of structuralism. unlike wundt's voluntarism, structuralism was much more in the tradition of empiricism-associationism.

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structuralism

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school of psych founded by titchener, goal of which was to describe the structure of the mind

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Wundt

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founder of experimental psych as a seperate discipline

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will

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according to wundt, the aspect of humans that allows them to direct their attention anywhere they wish. emphasis on will created voluntarism

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voluntarism

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through the process of apperception, individuals could direct their attention toward what they wished

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Stumpf

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psychologist who was primarily interested in musical perception and who insisted that psych study intact, meaningful mental experiences instead of searching for meaningless mental elements.

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volkerpsychologie

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Wundt's 10 volume work in which he investigated the higher mental processes through historical analysis and naturalistic observation.

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tridemensional theory of feeling

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wundt. feeling vary along 3 dimensions: pleasant-unpleasant, excitement-calm, strain-relaxation

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Donders

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studied reaction time to measure the quickness of various mental acts

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ebbinghaus

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first to study learning and memory experimentally

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elements of thought

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wundt and titchener: basic sensations from which more complex thoughts are derived

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kulpe

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found imageless mental operations ex. doubting, searching

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Muller

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experimental psychologist, worked in psychophysics, perception and menory

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savings

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decreased time of relearning