PSYCH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hard Wired, Cognitive Map, Empiricism
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; fechner"s law: the magnitude of the sensory experience of a stimulus is directly proportional to the logarithm of the physical magnitude of the stimulus, ie s = c log m. ; had a neural basis for his work, the consciousness was a separate domain. Representative transformations----> the arrow diagram on page 8. Wundt: (1832-1920); founder of scientific/experimental psychology, wrote first psych textbook and opened first laboratory; mental processes take time; study the speed of simple mental processes; tested people in two reaction-time tests. Cognitive psychology: mental processes are sequences of elementary processes which can be measured as reaction times. ; operant psychology b/c focuses on consequences; human behavior is product of the conditions in which a person grows and lives. Watson: (1878-1958); could learn a lot about animal"s behavior with no consideration of the mind; no direct way to observe the mind; mental constructs have no value when explaining behavior;
