PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Johann Friedrich Herbart, Apperception, Educational Psychology

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Chapter 4: the 19th c. transformation of psychology. At the beginning of the 19th c. , many believed with kant, that psychology could never be a science= however by the end of the century, this became a possibility. Green, shore and teo who called this the transformation of psychology", noted the importance of understanding the various processes by which a more scientific approach to psychology came about: J. k herbart"s attempt to cast a psychological theory in purely mathematical terms; he was also one of the first to apply psychology to practical problems, by showing how this psychology implied a particular approach to educaton. Fechner"s psychophysics which hypothesized a mathematically precise relation between the stimulus values and sensation that could be tested by means of experimental data o. Psychophysics- experimental study of the relation between stimulus magnitudes and their corresponding sensations. Scientific work on the psychophysiologigy of perception led to important theories of colour vision.

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