Quiz 1 Flashcards
What is SRT AND CRT?
SRT- simple reaction time
CRT-choose reaction time
*compare brain images from SRT and CRT and find the difference to see the brain parts that is important for a specific function.
What did Donders do?
- reaction time experiment
- studied things you cannot measure
- subtractive factors model
Helmholtz
- invented electrical potential and unconscious inferences
- precursor to Gestalt perceptual principles (interpret something that is not there aka triangle in class)
Wundt
Introspection -describing how you feel about something
*not scientific since it is subjective
Skinner
Language
-every child every where starts with the same phony
Nom Chomsky
-Wrote a review on skinners book about how language can be taught based on rewards and reinforcement
Brelands
Trained animals with Watson by using principles of behaviorism
Cherry
- Dichotic listening experience
- putting one thing and putting something in the other ear—-only listen to one ear at a time (problem with attention)
Newell and Simon
Made a computer (this computer became model for humans)
- stimulus—->output—->response
- attention is like a bottleneck
Descartes
Pineal gland control
-dualism
Monoism
- materialism: there is only body
- epipherimism: there is only mind
Galen
Blood, bile etc.
-4 humorous
Wepler
First person to talk about broken blood vessels
-now known as stroke
Duverney
Uses experimental lesion technique in pigeons
Galvani
Electrical stimulation of frog legs