October 24, 2024

·      What question about the reading for today did I prepare before class?

o   Why did he criticize theory of emotion of Wundt?

·      What key ideas did I hear in seminar today?

o   Johns Hopkins awarded Hall professorship of psychology and pedagogy in 1884 and gave him a research lab.

o   Created the American Psychological Association in 1892.

o   Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology,
Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (1904)

o   Recapitulations: stages of each person’s intellectual, emotional, and psychological development pass through the same ones as our prehuman
ancestors

o   Criticized James-Lange theory of emotion and Wundt’s life and work.

o   Major contributions of institutions, journals and organizations.

o   Self-psychology: anticipated personality theory of Allport

o   Edna Heidbreder: Seven Psychologies

o   Puzzle boxes: cats could only escape by making a specific response

o   Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962) and transfer of training: the effect of instruction and exercise in one mental function on performance in a different one.

§   This research helped undermine the doctrine of formal disciplines in education in favor of more specifically task-oriented educational
practices.

·      What substantive ideas or comments did I contribute in seminar today?

o   Talked about how the information we have learned contributes to voting and day to day life.

·      What did I learn today that contributed to my understanding of psychology?

o   Robert Sessions Woodworth and transfer of training: the effect of instruction and exercise in one mental function on performance in a different one.