A psicologia da memória em Wilhelm Wundt e na psicologia do desenvolvimento contemporânea : uma análise conceitual

Abstract

Memory is considered a key psychological process. Over the past two decades, several different views of how memory is represented and organized have been proposed. In 19th century Wilhelm Wundt conducted a number of memory experiments that seems to have been neglected for some time of modern cognitive psychologists and neurocientists. In this work core concepts of Wundt´s system are reviewed (object and method of psychology, mind and causality psychic) and his experimental work on memory is exposed. The Wundtian perspective reflects a strict adherence to a method firmly grounded in a theoretical framework in which memory is inserted in a research project to exploring the conscious experience. This review of Wundt´s approach to memory is intented also related the Wundt´s memory psychology with the modern research in development psychology on memory and provide some questions to debate about the concept of memory, his nature and relation with phenomena like consciousness.