PSYC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stereocilia, Night Terror, Spatial Memory
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Sprouted from philosophy and physiology, both asked about the validity of our senses. Naive realism: belief that we see the world precisely as it is. Phrenology: franz gall, bumps on your skull are there b/c shape of your underlying brain and are indicators of personality. Psychophysics: science of defining quantitative relationships b/w physical and psychological (subjective) events. Fechner"s law: relationship b/w stimulus magnitude and sensation magnitude, magnitude of subjective sensation increases proportionally to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity, as stimulus intensity grows, larger changes required for changes to be detected. Wunt & james founders of psyc as a science/academic discipline apart from philosophy. Wunt: first psyc research lab, consciousness primary focus, technique of introspection, and led to development of structuralism. Structuralism: understanding the conscious experience of the mind. Introspection: internal perception process by which someone examines own consciousness experience as objectively as possible, process fell out of favour b/c of disagreement b/w ppl.
