Category: Psychological Monographs

This research by George Cutler Fracker (yes, a relative) was written in 1908 while Psychology was still dominated by Wundt’s Structuralism, as can be seen from the reliance on introspection by a small number of experimental subjects (one of whom was the researcher). Primarily of historical interest, this article does demonstrate that the focus on cognition and memory which came into full bloom in the 1960’s and later, had its antecedents in the early history of psychology before the rise of behaviorism shut it down, temporarily as it turned out.

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