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Method of Adjustment/avg error

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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.

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Method of limit

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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.

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Immanuel Kant

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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

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Christian wolff

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Ground 0 of psychology
Defined Psychology as the Study of the Mind → His work laid the foundation for psychology as a systematic discipline

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Phantasmata

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Aristotle
First theorist of cognition → mental imagery research).

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Plato’s Chariot Allegory

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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).

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Integral Psychology (Wilber)

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Merges psychology with spiritual wisdom from Eastern and Western traditions.

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Frustration aggression hypothesis was given by?

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Dollard and miller

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Genetic epistemology

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Piaget, 1956

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Human Factors engineering

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Ergonomics, Broadbent

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