PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Wilhelm Wundt, Selective Breeding
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Thus it was established that to understand humans, soul is not the most important thing. Humans work as a machine which can be studied and understood. The government funded science which led to innovation. Ernst weber: there is said to be electric impulse in the human body which is referred to as electrical wiring. Hemholtz proved that there are aspects of human body that can be studied: impulse in a human body was studied. Human neural information transfer was being measured: chain of hand holding students, count how many people and compute avg distance a signal has to travel between input and output, total time divided by total distance. Blindfold people and put weight on people"s palms and tell which is heavy and light: he put 10g weight in left and 10. 1g in the right. But they could notice the difference in grams. He also tried to perform this with 100g of weights.
