PSYC 4008 : The Origins Of Psychology In Sensory Physiology - Test 1
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I will try to focus on events most clearly related to psychology. Some developments in 19th century physiology: most important: sensory physiology revealed the constructed nature of sensation and perception, other (more tangentially related), study of reflex action, localization of function, electrical nature of nerve impulses, the neuron doctrine. In 1801 thomas young suggested that hue sensation could be accounted for by 3 different sensory nerves (the trichromatic theory of hue perception; elaborated by helmholtz) In recent philosophy of mind, the term phenomenology is often restricted to the characterization of sensory qualities of seeing, hearing, etc. : what it is like to have sensations of various kinds. The doctrine of specific nerve energies: based on such observations, in 1826 johannes muller proposed the doctrine of specific nerve. Energies: the doctrine of specific nerve energies: the nature of perception is defined by the pathway over which the sensory information is carried.
