PSYA01H3 Chapter 1: Lecture 3 - Chapter 1 - The Science of Psychology
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Lecture 3- chapter 1 - the science of psychology. Pierre florens (1774-1867)the result of removing part of the brain depends on which part is removed: ablation research: take animals and put them through tests (auditory, visual etc) and then surgically remove part of the animal"s brain. London cab drivers have more dense neuro connections in the area of the brain that we know is responsible for spatial cognition. He answered this question by getting a bunch of people to hold hands like a chain and squeeze them. Then he timed it with a stop watch and took the time and divided by the number of people and divide by the length of neural tissue. Speed of nerve impulses: ernst weber (1795-1878) showed that people"s ability to discriminate between similar weights (or flashes of light) followed a natural function of the difference between the weights (or lights)
