Ch. 1 Flashcards
Psychophysiology is the interaction of
mind and body
Independent Variable is the subjects
Physiological Response
Dependent Variable is the subjects
Behavioral Repsonse
Biofeedback
Information concerning the functioning of organs, usually obtained through the use of electronic recording equipment.0
The early Greeks were interested in the location within the body of…
intellectual, emotional, and instinctual functioning.
Erasistratus
A physician during the time of Alexander, is credited with clinical psychophysiologial observation of a boy that fell in love with his stepmother.
Erasistratus technique illustrated early study of
lie detection
Erasistratus developing theory of..
stimulus-response specificity by observing reactions by the boy from various people that came into his room.
Galen and lovesickness case
Subject had an irregular pulse when she heard the name of her lover.
Galvanis contribution to psychophysiology
demonstrated that animals produce electricity that originates within the organism itself.
Vigouroux observed…
skin resistance level changes. Skin as a variable conductor. He noted that skin resistant levels taken from the insensitive side of the body were higher than those of the normally functioning side. First documentation of habituation of sin resistance.
Fere research that utilized a…
hand dynometer for emotion and hand strength.
The body is electrically….
conductive and active.
Signal and Noise
Recordings= signal+noise.
Signal: what we are looking for.
Noise: what we are not looking for.
Instrumentation
Data quality improved with electronics
