PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friedrich Bessel, Experimental Physiology, Psychophysics
23 Oct 2018
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Chapter 8 (exam notes) - early developments in physiology, rise of experimental 1. By what mechanisms do empirical events come to be represented in consciousness. Everything from sense perception to motor reactions was studied intensely. Origins of experimental psychology = early developments in physiology, anatomy, neurology and astronomy. Astronomers who first realized that the type of knowledge human physiology provides might be useful to all sciences. Early implications of the human observer - idea of measurement. Assistant observation was slower than his - fired him because he thought the assistant was being inaccurate. I. e in astronomy everyone should look at something and get the same measurement. Suspected that these errors - were actually individual differences amongst. Personal differences over which people don"t have much control. Differences in observation times would be found amongst everyone. Differences in observation times would be found amongst all astronomers. This means that there is a discrepancy between the objective and the subjective.
