PSY 731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Threshold, Absolute Difference, Experimental Psychology
10 Sep 2015
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Science and reasoning was seen as the method for acquiring knowledge (enlightenment period) Study of the relation between the perception of a stimulus event and physical dimensions of the stimulus being perceived. At what point can you not distinguish between two points. Our perception, when we start to notice the difference between two things. Measure and math to understand mental events. Physical world: psychological experience is not one-tone-ration. Mind body relation might be understood by measuring psychological sensations and physical stimuli. Could use just noticeable difference as a psychological scale. Absolute threshold: as the intensity increases above the threshold, a person experiences a jng (then another, and another) How you notice the change as it increases. Research on how the spinal cord mediates reflex action. When frogs head was cut of movements were involuntary. Noticed that some movement are under the control of our mind, some are based in the.
