PSYCH 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edwin Smith Papyrus, Ada Lovelace, Compass
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Sharks: pigeons, magnetic compass, birds & bees, visual sense, ultraviolet, dogs, ultrasound, not new senses but different from us, we do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e it, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is(cid:374)"t useful to us, why & who studies, economics, human factors. Interface design: virtual reality, medicine, advertising/ marketing. This is the name imposed on the oldest known medical text based on direct observation, that is, knowledge compiled by collecting/compiling data/evidence and drawing conclusions, and the first written mention of the brain. Ibn al-haytham: (alhazen; 1000 ce; iraq), his pioneering work was done while europe was in the dark ages. He promoted the scientific method (where knowledge is acquired through experimentation and observation); he was using the scientific method hundreds of years before the renaissance. He proposed that vision was caused when light bounced off of objects and entered the eye (as opposed to light shining out of the eye, as some major greek thinkers (euclid (300 bce) and plato (400bc)) proposed!
