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    considered the father of experimental psychology. Topics such as the laboratory of experimental psychology in the University of Leipzig, many influences Wundt had that shaped and guided his work, and the impact his work had on future psychologists and how it helped the development of modern psychology, will be discussed and viewed throughout this essay. There will also be an overview of Wundt’s life and beliefs according to experimental psychology. Scientist whom have come after Wundt and that have studied under him will be mentioned and discussed. An overview on Wundt’s ideas on apperception and introspection will be argued, alongside his many experiments which had…

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    Experimental and Forensic Psychology Report Two types of psychology are Experimental and Forensic. Exploring these two types of psychology will give insight to their positives and negative aspects. Looking at seven different questions such as types of jobs they do and hot topics, will give examples of these specifics. It can help with ideas of whether or not they might be for the reader, and how these jobs look from the inside out, and the outside in. The types of work Experimental…

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    The prominent psychologist Edward Titchener expressed the value that Hermann Ebbinghaus played in experimental psychology while giving his eulogy, saying, As I approach the topic of this lecture, what is uppermost in my mind is a sense of irreparable loss. When the cable brought the bad news, last February, that Ebbinghaus was dead… the feeling that took precedence even of personal sorrow was the wonder of what experimental psychology would do without him. (Hoffman & Bamberg, 2005) Fortunately,…

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    This semester in Experimental psychology: Learning and Behaviors we started lab by learning to understand the responsibilities on how to use animals in a laboratory setting. We had to pass a test regarding the ethics of the treatment of animals. These ethics involved the institution, state, and federal regulations. Once we finished this process we received 15 Syrian male hamsters that were only 22 days old. We got split into a group of two, and got to care for one hamster per group. Each group…

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    Even though he has been critiqued for his overemphasis on childhood experiences, the unconscious mind, sex, and aggression; his theories and methods have opened up a new perspective on mental illness and contributed to experimental psychology. He suggests that there are two components of dreams. That being manifest content, aspects we consciously experience, and latent content, the hidden underlying meaning of the dream. Freud refers to his wish-fulfillment theory in his book The Interpretation…

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    Reading 10: LITTLE EMOTIONAL ALBERT Watson, J.B., & Rayner R. (1920). Conditioned emotional responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 1-14. In the 1920’s a new movement known as behaviorism began to take hold, which suggested that behavior is formed outside the person through various environmental factors or situational stimuli. Watson theorized emotional responses occur, because we have been conditioned to respond emotionally. Watson wanted to demonstrate that if a stimulus…

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    quantitative research designs, used between groups, are the pretest-posttest control group design and within groups, the crossover design. According to Sheperis, Young, & Daniels (2010) the experimental research design is an attempt to maintain control and or alter one variable…

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    The average age that many American citizens begin driving was 18, in comparison to 65 which was medically the average age that was recommended to stop driving (Eric D. Lawrence, 2014). The experiment was inclusive of both faculty and students at The Ohio State University, and would be conducted in the Psychology Building on the university’s campus. For this procedure the use of random assignment was necessary to ensure the two groups are equivalent at the beginning of the study. Within the…

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    A Brief Study of Wilhelm Wundt When discussing the history of psychology, there are a few things that will always be brought up. There are a few people who will be mentioned in nearly every discussion held on the topic. Names like Freud, Jung, Pavlov or Skinner are sure to be talked about at length, but there is an even more important name to remember- Wilhelm Wundt, the “Father of Psychology”. He founded psychology as an academic discipline, established the first laboratory, edited the first…

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    Welding Simulation

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    Introduction Since the management team decided to assess the effective factors on the quality of the welding in the manufacturing process by utilizing simulation, we have to briefly describe the used simulation process called Design of Experiment (DOE) and understand the characteristic of such analytical process. Basically, the process of accumulating the data based on the observations is time-consuming and costly and miscalculation in the return of investment on the improvisation can be…

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