HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Edward Thorndike, Prosopagnosia, Paradigm Shift
5 Dec 2020
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*origin of species (1859): comon bruv, if you don"t know what this is by now, just quit. Elemente der psychophysik (1860): the birth of psychophysics. *edward bradford titchener (1867-1927): another student of wundt: father of structuralism: name given by titchener to his approach to psychology, consisting of trying to discover the structure of the human mind by means of introspection. The protestant religion-science break-up (1870s): scientists began to react against what felt like a patronizing attitude from the church authorities: estimates of earth"s age: church thought earth created in 6 days, about 10. 000. But scientists did not agree because of geological fossils found and. Darwins book: many writings were published in a short span of time that questioned how much religion has been holding back scientific progress. Silver staining technique (1873): by camillo golgi to find out nerve cells can be stained and see the dendrites and axons. *edward lee thorndike (1874-1949): became interested in psychology after reading.
