PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abnormal Psychology, Psychophysics, Wilhelm Wundt
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Lecture 2: the birth and early years of psychology. Late 1800s, big,, strong and economically very strong. Germany then started to invest in the future. Through investing in science, b/c investing in science is investing in the future, because you will have the latest innovations and the latest technology thus give you power and means to trade giving people something they don"t have. Germany started to invest in new sciences as well. The guy with the hand squeezing experiment. Showed you can measure neural impulses. he said if you can set your environment right and if you were clever you can possibly measure things that are difficult to measure. Thus people how think you don"t gotta restrict. Very important person in the creation of psychophysics. Which is the notion that we can take the same process of physics and imply it to the world of our mind.
