PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Experimental Psychology, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Electric Arc
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Many believed, due to kant, that psychology could never be a science. By the end of this century the possibility of psychology becoming a scientific discipline became more plausible. Herbart attempted to cast a psychological theory solely in mathematical terms, which made it clear that it was nearly impossible to do so. Herbart was also the first to apply psychology to practical problems to try and show how his psychology implied a particular approach to education. Fechner"s psychophysics hypothesized a mathematically precise relation between stimulus values and the sensation that could be tested by means of experimental data. Kant did not believe that psychology could be a true science because it could not be mathematical. Herbart succeeded to kant"s position at the university of k nigsberg and differed from. Kant by believing that mathematics was applicable to psychological events. Because of this herbart is often regarded as one of the first, or the first mathematical psychologists.
