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Method of Adjustment/avg error
The participant (instead of the experimenter) controls the stimulus intensity and adjusts it until it is just barely noticeable or matches another standard stimulus.
Faster than the Method of Limits, but more prone to error.
Method of limit
The experimenter gradually increases or decreases the intensity of a stimulus to determine the threshold at which the subject first perceives or stops perceiving it.
Immanuel Kant
Rejected the Idea of the Soul as the Subject of Psychology
Mind as a Dynamic System
Encouraged Critical and Self-Reflexive Thinking and empirical methods
Christian wolff
Ground 0 of psychology
Defined Psychology as the Study of the Mind → His work laid the foundation for psychology as a systematic discipline
Phantasmata
Aristotle
First theorist of cognition → mental imagery research).
Plato’s Chariot Allegory
In Phaedrus, Plato compares the soul to a chariot:
The Charioteer represents reason, guiding the soul.
The White Horse symbolizes noble desires (wisdom, virtue).
The Black Horse represents base desires (pleasure, instincts).
Integral Psychology (Wilber)
Merges psychology with spiritual wisdom from Eastern and Western traditions.
Frustration aggression hypothesis was given by?
Dollard and miller
Genetic epistemology
Piaget, 1956
Human Factors engineering
Ergonomics, Broadbent