PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wilhelm Wundt, Sandpaper, Hermann Ebbinghaus

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

Phrenology was one of the first empirical study of the mind. By measuring aspects of the skull (bumbs and dimples) one could determin a persons strenths and weaknesses. Other duder, slow, broken speach, only spoke nouns area noted the language alltogether. Both has diffuse brain damage -- in a very specific therefore, broca found the "language area" Found phrenology -- and phenological chart area in a different place. Kept very poor notes and records, which meant it was near impossible toity partys. created to. to even test the claims he was making. Was called out to do skull readings for powerful people at hoity. Was faced with challange of telling "hard truths" and so instead effective stories to placate those he was giving readings. Ended up basing his studies and data on "social motivations" Phrenology has fallen out of favour, but the fact that it was empirically testible led to much of our current knowledge about brain function. were.