PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Retina, Myelin, Umami
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The roots of psychology ki taught psych for 10 years and produced principals of psychology textbook. Physiology william james people have minds, animals do not . Neurology (phineas gage) supervised a crew to drill a hole. People are a combination of body and mind . Animals do not have minds, they are complex automatons belief that there is only body, no mind. Reaction time: perception takes time and is not as instantaneous as it seems. Helmholtz: velocity of the nerve impulse stimulated nerves close to the muscle and farther away from the muscle to see how long it took the impulse to move down the nerve. study of electrics, psychics, physiology. Dissected muscle of frog to see nerve impulse and found that it was the same in both cases, 80 mph (slow) when doc looks through your eye, donders played important role in developing this tool.
