PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gustav Fechner, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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There are many examples around the world (confucius, muslim teachings, etc. : phrenology (early 1800s) Theory from franz gall, based on the idea that bumps on your skull are there because of the shape of your underlying brain, those bumps show your personality: psychophysics (early 1800s) From gustav fechner (whose text is considered to be the launching point of experimental psychology), science of defining quantitative relationships between physical and psychological events: fechner"s law. Describes the relationship between stimulus magnitude and sensation magnitude. As stimulus intensity grows larger, larger changes are required for change to be perceived. Founder of 1st psychology lab and institute 1879 university of leipzig: introspection. Systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that ask people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts. Edward titchener (1867 1927, student of wundt: structuralism. Regarded the mind as a function of the organism, investigates the purpose rather than structure. John b watson (1878 1958: behaviorism.
