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
Gall
Phrenology- bumps on the head
Rolando
Used galvanis method to study cortex
Flourens
Studied ablations
Broca
Studied language on people who died of stroke and looked at regions where the language functions originated
Golgi
Silver nitrate staining method
Flechsig
Described myelination of brain
Brodmann
52 cortical regions
Berger
Publishes first findings in EEG
Phelps
First PET scan
