PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Falsifiability, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Example: astrology is an easy target for criticism because they make very general predictions and want you to just take their word for it. Biopsychosocial model: a means of explaining behaviour as a product of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors; can influence each other. Determinism: the belief that all events are favoured by lawful, cause and effect relationships. Thought experiment: putting a weight on each hand, different weights, noticed a mathematical relation, weight of the weight is being transferred into their minds even if their eyes are closed, mental feeling of the weight, 1g difference is more noticeable than anything less led to weber"s constant. Brain localization is the idea that certain parts of the brain control specific mental abilities and personality characteristics. Phrenology showed that the brain consisted of 27 organs corresponding o mental traits and dispositions that could be detected by examining the surface of the skull (franz gall studied this)
