PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sigmund Freud, Horse Hoof, Thomas Kuhn
16 Aug 2018
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He also could not speak: he was taken in by doctor jean marc itard who had developed a reputation for teaching the deaf to speak. However, after years of work, itard failed to teach victor to more than a few words. Study of a modern day wild child", the child was left to sit, tied up, hour after hour, often into the night, day after day, month after month, year after year . Gustav theodor fechner (1801-1887: father of psychophysics, focus on sensory systems. Weber"s law: ernst weber (1795-1878, just noticeable difference. If 5 grams is the noticeable difference between 100 and 105 grams, then for 1000 grams, it will be 1050 grams or 50 grams: weber"s fraction is 5/100 (for this task). So you won"t notice a difference for 100/104 or. 1000/1049: weber"s law: the change in stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus.
