PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Experimental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, Psychometrics
20 Mar 2019
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History of psychology: descartes: psychology is not a science, it can"t be because science had to be mathematical, the more mathematical the more scientifical it was, the human mind could not be mathematical, mental phenomena. Are too short in time to be observed. The mind is too fleeting and quick, there is no time to measure it: hermann von helmholtz. Took up the challenge of attempting to study the mind mathematically. For much of his career he conducted studies on the physiological of optics and. Liked challenges, didn"t like being told he couldn"t do things acoustics. He was also a leading physicist (e. g. , the law of conservation of energy) What about the history of psychology: one of his most important contributions was the measurement of the speed of the nervous impulse . In the mid-1800s it was believed that the speed of nervous conduction was probably faster than the speed of light .
