principles of psychology

• in 1980 william james published the princples of psychology
• in this book he wanted to focus on the function of the consciousness
• how the mind enables adaption to the envioroment
• the non experimental and specualtive approach using self observation and philosophical reasoning to expolore psychological phenmena
• and the difference between long term and short term memory
• hermann ebbinghaus is discorved the forgetting curve and spacing effect
• hermann also desgined nonsense syllables and describe the learning curve
• hermann also described the forgetting curve as the loss of information that one has learned