PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Ferrier, Psych, Absolute Threshold
24 Jan 2017
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Ch 4: need to talk about renaissance humanisme and only 2 people you need to know about are francis bacon (influence on behaviourists) and descartes. Ch 5: all of british empiricist except hobbs, don"t need to know anyone from french sensationalism, know positivism. Ch 6: only need to know leibniz, thomas reid, immanuel kant. Ch 8: (don"t need to know haring, or ladd franklin): physiologists. Assistant"s measurements were slower than his own, blamed assistant. Not careless errors but in fact due to individual differences. Personal equation (differences in observation time that you will find between all astronomers) When astronomers are making measurements going to have to take this into account. If important in astronomy going to be important in all other science (some discrepancy between object out there and our inside) Data from a hard science that it tends to support this point, became interested in senses. Believe that specific functions reside in specific areas of the nervous system.
