PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noumenon, Wilhelm Wundt, Immanuel Kant
30 Mar 2016
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Subject matter, methods, and the making of a new science (mid-late 1800"s) New methods were being applied to study consciousness. Proposed a distinction between 2 domains of reality: phenomenal world: is the representation of the noumenal world. Our mind organizes our experiences in time and space. The mind transforms the world from the noumenal world to the phenomenal world: noumenal world: it consists of the world as it exists independent of our experience of it. It can never be known directly because we can only perceive and experience it. The mind transforms reality to terms in which we can perceive it. The mind is an active part of ourselves. He wanted to measure stimulus intensities mathematically (ex: how bright is this room?) Weber measured peoples ability to discriminate different weights. He found there was a constant ratio that people could just notice a different in weights. S=k log p (s stimulus intensity, p physical intensity)
