PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Papal Infallibility, Cerebral Cortex
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Modified a pendulum clock so that it presented both an auditory and a visual stimulus. He called the instrument a gedankenmesser, meaning thought meter or mind gauge . He used it to measure the mental process of perceiving the two stimulus. Using himself in his experiment, he concluded it was impossible to perceive two things at the same moment. The results of his measurement showed that it took 1/8th of a second to register both stimuli sequentially. To the observer, the stimuli appears to happen simultaneously, but not to the researcher. Wundt was the founder of psychology as a formal academic discipline. He established the first lab, edited the first journal, and began experimental psychology as a science. Wundt wrote that fechner"s work represented the first conquest in experimental psychology: when fechner died, his papers were left to wundt. Didn"t like school, but went to university. He undertook medical training at the university of tubingen and the university of.
