PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - American Psychological Association, Psychological Science, Wilhelm Wundt
6 Jun 2013
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Psychology: teaches us how we think, feel, develop, learn, love, interact and grow. Uses the scientific method to collect, evaluate and interpret information to draw sound conclusions. Psychology: the term psychology comes from the greek word psyche , which means the soul. Before psychology, philosophers; such as, aristotle and plato, wondered how do we learn and remember? and where does knowledge come from? . Innovations in technology made the 1800"s an interesting period for psycholinguists who had new tools to explore and make significant discoveries about the brain. Muller proposed that like an electrical current flowing along a metal conductor, the message transmitted by nerves were coded as electrical impulses that ravelled along different channels. When helmholtz measured the speed of nerve impulses, he found it to be about 90 feet/second. But not as fast as an electrical current. Muller further proposed that particular parts of the body are connected to specific areas of the brain to serve different functions.
