Psychology 3950F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Dream Interpretation, Anna O., Ego Ideal
14 Dec 2013
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Father of psychology stimulated behaviourism and gestalt psychology. Founded a laboratory in 1875: fully established in 1879 denotes the birth of psychology. The marriage of physiology and psychology: physiology: observations using the senses (echoes locke, psychology: inner observation (echoes plato and descartes) Published volkerpsychologie (folk psychology: called social psychology today, but its main study was language. Founded/edited the journal philosophical studies (renamed psychological studies: probably first psychology journal. Clock with pendulum that hits a bell at the extremes of its swings. Pendulum not seen at extremes when bell was heard. Not possible to have simultaneous attention to two modalities (sight, sound) Thought the lag = time it took for central processing to occur. Psychophysics: more research in fechner tradition (loudness/sound pressure level, brightness/light intensity) Sensory discreteness: difference thresholds involving timing of events, amount of time between 2 flashes of light you can detect 2 vs. 1 flashes, foreshadows gestalt work on apparent motion.
