PSYB51H3 Midterm: All midterm notes, includes lecture AND readings
Document Summary
Plato"s allegory of the cave our reality is defined (restricted) by our senses most of what we perceive depends on what changes, not what if constant. Nativism idea that the mind produces ideas that are not derived from external sources, that we have innate abilities that are not learned. Plato believed in this, that body and mind are separate entities. Plato: truest sense of reality comes from ppl"s mind and souls. Hobbes: only matter exists model of human nature relies entirely on experience he thought memories were simply sensory experiences that were old and faded and imagination is nothing but decaying sense. Locke: all thoughts ccould be constructed from experience with a collection of sensations. Fechner: inventor of psychophysics, true founder of experimental psychology www. notesolution. com. Stevens" power law: a principle describing the relationship between stimulus magnitude and resulting sensation magnitude, such that the magnitude of subjective sensation is proportional to the stimulus magnitude raised to an exponent.
