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Electrical conductors of skin.
More stimulus, more sweat, more electrical conducting on skin.
Nervous System runs on electrical nerves.
Ued electric currents on frog leg muscles. |
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Speed of nerve pulse
Stimulated motor nerve of muscle.
Stimulated motor nerve and measured time of stimulation then time of muscle contraction.
82 feet per second. |
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Phrenology Locationist
Developed theory and map of the brain that showed what each section was supposedly responsible for. |
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Destroy parts of animal's brains. Nurse them back to health.
See what function was affected. |
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Created Introspection.
Psychology is a science of experience.
Introspection - self observation.
Strict way of training people.
Elements of conscious experience: Sensations and feelings.
Led to structuralism.
Criticism:
little agreement among introspectors.
self-report unreliable.
not publicly verifiable. |
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mind/consciousness allows individuals to adapt to environment.
How the mind accomplishes something/functions. |
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Development over evolutionary time
Natural selection and reproductive fitness.
(Grandparents) |
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| Direction taken as a product of selection contingencies |
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Behavior guided by mind.
Motivation, but not conscious motivation. |
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Eggs and Reed Warblers.
Born instinct to push anything away that touches its back. |
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| Survive to adulthood and procreate |
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VA needed tests to asses armu recruits intelligence.
YERKS: developed 2 tests
Army Alpha test: people who could read and write.
Army Beta test: people who could not read and write.
Personal Data Sheet to asses CHARACTER STABILITY. |
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After, more than half of the 60,000 veterans had neuro-psychological disorders.
VA needed trained clinical psycholgists to help them.
22 programs created over night.
Clinical psychologists engaged and diagnosed treatment and research for veterans. |
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| Weber and Fechner - WEIGHT COMPARISON |
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Measure sensory experiences.
Compare sensations. |
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| Causes depression if there isn't enough being produced. |
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Letting negativity ruminate.
Makes us feel worse. Fear response in amygdala. |
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Wundt.
Self-Observation.
Observing conscious experience. |
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Tried to memorize nonsensical words.
Methodology to study memory.
Longer you wait to test, the more you forget. |
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Hippocampus was removed.
Was unable to form new memories after operation.
Changed the things we know about the brain. |
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| Development of evolutionary time |
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Reproductive Fitness
Need to survive, procreate and have grandchildren to be successful. |
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| Memory restores events to consciousness that have been modified by repeated experience. |
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Solutions to research.
Made psychology appealing to greater community. |
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| Types of Applied Psychology |
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Clinical
Forensic
Health
Sports |
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