PSYC 1030H Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Amplitude Modulation, Memory, Sigmund Freud
20 Nov 2018
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Didn"t (cid:271)elieve that psy(cid:272)hology (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e a s(cid:272)ien(cid:272)e as it (cid:271)elongs in philosophy. The mind can not be studied through the methods of science and it cant be reduced to mathematics. Took up the challenge of attempting to study the mind mathematically. For much of his career he conducted studies on the physiological of optics and acoustics. One of his most important contributions was the measurement of the speed of the nervous impulse. Mid 1800"s it was believed that the speed of nervous conduction was probably faster than the speed of light. Trained subjects to press a button when different parts of their bodies were touched. Subjects took slightly longer to respond when the toe was stimulated as opposed to the finger. Used the discrepancy between stimulating different parts of the body to calculate the speed of nervous impulse. This showed that the mind operates by lawful and mathematical principles. In 1857 he received an assistantship to work with helmholtz.
