PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Experimental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt

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Importance of math-science has to be mathematical but he didnt believe that psychology could be a science. The mind can"t be studied by methods of science it can"t be reduced to mathematics. Are too short in time to be observed. Took up the challenge of attempting to study the mind mathematically. For much if his career he conducted studies on the physiological of optics and acoustics. Also was a leading physicist (the law of conservation of energy). In the mid 1800s it was believed that the speed of nervous conduction was probably faster than the speed of light. Helmholtz trained subjects to press a button when different parts of their bodies were touched. Subjects took longer to respond when the toe was stimulated opposed to finger. Used the discrepancy between stimulating different parts of the body to calculate the speed of nervous impulse. Thus, able to show the mind operates by lawful and mathematical principles.

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