Lecture 7 - Mental chronometry

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Question 3

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Describe Helmholtz’s follow-up experiments on humans

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Question 5

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Describe Mental chronometry (Donders, 1868).

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Question 6

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Describe Assumption 1. Serial processing of Mental chronometry.

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Question 7

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Describe Assumption 2. Pure insertion of Mental chronometry.

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Lecture Outline:
The speed/duration of mental processes
- Nerve conduction velocity
- Reaction time
How can reaction time infer mental processes?
- The subtraction method
- and its assumptions

Lecture summary:
Mental processes unfold in time
The subtraction method
- The assumption of serial processing
- The assumption of pure insertion

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