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Scientific Method
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To know the physical world
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Individual Differences
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differences between observers
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clock time; looking at telescope through a certain point.
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Bell- Magendie Law
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- Sensory nerves enter dorsal roots of spinal cords and motor nerves emerge from entral roots
- Nerve physiology = sensory and motor functions - Metal functions are mediated by different anatomical structures. |
Separate and Different Functions
different things going on in the body lead to different thoughts. |
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Doctrine of Specific nerve energies: Johannes Muller
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5 types of sensory nerves results in characteristic sensation.
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Hermann von Helmholtz
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- "life force" not conducive to scientific analysis
- Physical and chemical processes - "Energy is never or lost, it is meerly transformed." - Theory of Perceptions |
Study frog reaction nerve conduction.
Theory of color vision: Resonance place theory: |
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Resonance place theory:
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Pitches of sounds that we hear is sound vibrations
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Ewald Hering:
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- Receptors in the eye respond to receptors matter
- provide information about depth; innate |
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Christine Ladd- Franklin
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Theory of color vision based on evolutionary theory
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Phrenology
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- Franz gall: 1st cohesive ideas about phernology
- Examing bumps and depression's on one's skull - aka physiognomy |
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Pierre Flourens
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- Dispute Phrenology scientifically
- ablation Method: removing brain parts from dogs and pigeons. - Some location but the hemispheres functions as a unit. |
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Paul Broca/ Carl Wernicke
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"Clinical setting"
language and communication function Broca Area left hemisphere Speech, articulation, production |
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Broca's area
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portion of left hemisphere- speech articulaton or production
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Wernicke's area
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portion near Broca's area left temporal lobe area responsible for speech comprehension
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Fritsch, Hirzig, and Ferrier
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Studied electrical stimulation of the brain
Motor cortex, when certain area of cortex is stimulated, muscular movement on opposite sides of ody are elicited |
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Ernst Weber
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2 point threshold on all different areas of the body
Smallest threshold on tongue largest in the middle of back |
Probes
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Weber's Law
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Amount of change to notice a difference is a constant fraction relating to the stimuli
*1st quantitative law in psychology* sense of touch is several senses |
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Gustav Fechner
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- all things that are physical are concious (panpsychim)
- mathematical relationship between mental events and physical events *experimental astheitics* |
Art
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Voluntarism
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will and choice
understand simple and complex events - all types of events - based on experience TWO TYPES of Experience: Mediate Immediate |
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Wilhelm Wundt
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1st school of psychology
- sensations and perceptions Theory of Feelings Plesantness and unplesantness excitment and calmness strain and relaxation |
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Titchner and Structuralism
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determination of the what, how, and why of mental life
Three Elements of the mind - Sensations - Images - Affections |
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Decline of Structuralism
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- Ppl began to question introspection
- studying animal behavior - lack of interest in practical implication |
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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- Used nonsense syllables
- Over-learning decrease rate of forgetting - Practive over a period of time |
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