ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Comparative Psychology, Psychometrics, Psychological Testing
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The university reform in germany: enlightenment fought against dominance of humanities and religion; visible in university of halle, university of halle based on enlightenment and pietism (protestant movement, promoted revival of practical. Christianity: 18th century: pietism and enlightenment fought agains catholic orthodoxy and doctrine, enlightenment ideas mainly came from group of academics who had been expelled from university of. Wundt and the first laboratory of experimental psychology. Interested in psychophysics (jnd by fechner, registration of response time) Methods used by wundt: three groups of methods for three different types of problems, experimental method, psychophysical method (relationship between stimulus and conscious state, mesaurment of duration of simple mental processes (reaction time, psychometrics) Wundt to study nature of human consciousness: historical method, study about products of uman mind, study of mental differences revealed by differences between cultures, suited to studying higher psychological functions (e. g. social aspects og human thought and behaviour)
