The examination of ones' own mind to inspect and report on personal thoughts.
What is introspection?
100
Arousal whenever a sense organ is stimulated and results in impulses that go to the brain.
What are sensations?
100
An idea that the mind has the capacity to organize mental contents into higher-level thought processes.
What is voluntarism?
100
A graph that shows material is forgotten rapidly in the first few hours after learning and more slowly thereafter.
What is the forgetting curve?
200
He used nonsense syllables to study the memory process.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
200
When sensations combine to form a more complex state.
What are feelings?
200
Syllables presented in a meaningless series.
What are nonsense syllables?
200
Quantitative measurements
What kind of measurements did Wundt use?
200
A man with a great interest for music who integrated music with experiments.
Who is Carl Stumpf?
300
His approach aimed at investigating what was going on in the subject's mind during a conscious experience.
Who is Oswald Külpe?
300
It provides information about something other than the elements of that experience.
What is a mediate experience?
300
The process of organizing mental elements into a whole.
What is apperception?
300
Experiments using the introspection technique cannot always yield agreement because introspective observation is self-observation-decidedly a private experience.
What is a criticism of Wundtian psychology?
300
Wundt's type of psychology that dealt with the various stages of human mental development as manifested in language, art, myths, social customs, law, and morals.
What is cultural psychology?
400
He believed in his own system of psychology that focused on mental activities rather than mental contents.
Who is Franz Brentano?
400
The conscious processes we have when stimuli are presented.
What is immediate experience?
400
An introspective method that examined experience as it occurred and did not try to reduce experience to elementary components.
What is phenomenology?
400
1. Analyze conscious processes into their basic elements
2. Discover how these elements are synthesized or organized
3. Determine the laws of connection growing the organization of the elements.
What were Wundt's goals?
400
This process involved having a subject perform a complex task and have the subject provide a retrospective report about their cognitive processes during the task.
What is systematic experimental introspection?
500
He did not like to reduce experiences to elementary components, but rather, study experience as it occurred.
Who is Carl Stumpf?
500
Wundt's explanation for feeling states based on: 1. pleasure/displeasure, 2. tension/relaxation, and 3. excitement/depression.
What is the tridimensional theory of feelings?
500
Meaning in thought can occur without any sensory or imagined content.
What is imageless thought?
500
-Observers must be able to determine when the process is to be introduced.
-Observers must be in a state of readiness or strained attention.
-It must be possible to repeat the observation several times.
-It must be possible to vary the experimental conditions in terms of the controlled manipulation of the stimuli.
What are methods of introspection?
500
This is a famous laboratory where many psychologists studied in Germany.