PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Facilitated Communication
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Scieniic experiments and wishful thinking: the saga of facilitated communicaion (fc) Wilhelm von osten and his horse, clever hans (1800s) Human and animal thinking said to be very similar. Von osten was a math teacher and taught hans to add, subtract, muliply, divide, count, understand the calendar, keep track of people or objects, and could read. Didn"t charge for admission to see hans. German board of educaion appointed a commission to study this including biologists, minister, circus trainer, etc. Would slightly raise eyebrows and head when the answer was correct: hans understood body language. We are suscepible to others" inluence clever hans efect. Works for downs syndrome and other forms of retardaion too. Image shown to student, diferent image shown to facilitator, and then typed together: they typed what it was that the facilitator saw. The facilitators didn"t know that they were controlling the typing. People would type without even looking, so it must be the facilitators even unconsciously.
