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Aristotle the brain

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highest functioning occurred in the heart

brain was a condenser for overheated vapours - cooling system

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descartes

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recognised that the brain is split into 2 hemispheres

didn’t believe they could form unified functions

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18th century doctors began

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to see a relationship between head injury and certain functions
example- strokes caused loss of speech

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19th century

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empirical science- investigating the senses experimentally - combine physiology with psychology

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emerging Zeitgeist

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common theme of the time
scientific method
modernism- objectivity
materialism- physical properties

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psychometrics

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science of measuring mental faculties such as intelligence , personality , mental illness and educational problems

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who was the founder of psychometrics

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galton

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Darwin

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natural selection
variation within a species
successful genes become more popular
genes passed onto offspring

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galton on intelligence

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individual differences must be innate - intelligence run-in families- hereditary

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how did Galen study intelligence

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looked at families of eminent / higher social class people 
closer the kinship , the greater the likelihood of eminence
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eugenics

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improving the race by selective breeding

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key differences between science and pseudoscience

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science vs pseudo science
systematic observation vs anecdotal evidence
peer review vs none
considers all evidence vs considers only positive evidence
repeatable results vs non repeatable

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anthropometric laboratory

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systematically studied human traits - height , reaction times, sensory acuity
thought that people with higher intelligence have powerful and efficient nervous systems

power of brain = related to size

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Charles spearman

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he proposed performance on test depends on two factors
single general ability
several specifics such as verbal , visual and numerical

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lewis terman

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adapted binet tests into English
testing became standardised
iq testing

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gall

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compared brains

certain faculties were based in specific parts of the brain

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gall anecdotal evidece

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bumps and indentations on surface of the skull reflect the size of phrenological organs
pseducoscience- cognitively biased

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Johannes muller

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proposed that sensations were properties of the NS
we can trick our nerves not experiencing things without external stimuli
example- pressing on eyeball= see flashes of light

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weber

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interested in measuring the sensitivity of the senses

threshold of sensations

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absolute thresholds

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smallest quantities that give any sensation at all

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relative threshold

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smallest quantitative changes that is noticeable

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webers law

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only notice a change when the magnitude of the change is bigger than a critical fraction

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Helmholtz

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interested in the speed of the nervous impulse

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rate of neural conduction

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used frog legs

stimulated the nerve in the leg at different distances and measured time taken for food to twitch

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Helmholtz also studied vision and audition

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vison = sensations and perceptions

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what are sensations

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raw elements of conscious experience

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what are perceptions

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meaningful interpretations of sensations - psychological

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unconscious inference

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image on the retina may not accurately reflect the external world
brain perceptions contradict the raw sensations

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selective attention test

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we neglect other things but concentrate on one thing

conscious experience is guided by attention

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structuralist psychology

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study of conscious experiences by introspection

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gestalt psychology

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a whole is more than its parts

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Wundt

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founder of experimental psychology
set up first laboratory in Leipzig
psychology is the study of the mental life/ consciousness

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consciousness

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inner experience - subjective

must begin with self observation

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method of Wundt

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introspection combines self observation with experimentation
yields quantitative data

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3 categories of consciousness

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representation
willing
feelings
creates an impression of unitary flow of events

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structuralism

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complex mental experiences could be broken down into simple processes

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only the person having the experiences can observe it

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subjective

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problems with wundts methods

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unverifiable
subjective
retrospective bias
too Cole 
imageless thoughts]
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William James

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stream of consciousness

consciousness is not a thing but a process

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William James did not believe in

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breaking down experiences - not stable/ constant

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functionalism

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interested in the function

studies how consciousness changes according to the environment

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James lange there of emotion

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emotions arise from conscious perceptions your physiological condition
something happens to you that creates a physiological arousal- heart starts beating , then interpret that emotion based on whats going on at the time

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