PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Wilhelm Wundt, Psychophysics, Sigmund Freud
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Look at the history of it, before ww1 and ww2. Germany was a superpower, did well in both wars. Thought sciene and knowledge gives them a strong advantage. There were funds to try something new given by the government. Very important to the birth of psychology. Simply stuff that had a strong impact. What i would like to know how fast does a signal travel in a tissue people would have neglected and said its too hard to measure. Helmolts said lets find the average human and figure out how the nerve tissue is from one hand to the spine to the brain back to the spine then to ther other hand. Hand squeezing example you then know the number of humans, time, Wanted to take the notion of physics and apply it to the conscious mind. Measuring something in ther persons mind, and the results say that it falls in. *weight on hands example ratio of weight was constant.
