PSY 515 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Gustav Fechner, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Experimental Psychology
10 Apr 2020
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19th century german system of higher education developed a philosophy. Wissenschaft an emphasis on scholarly and scientific research: an important predecessor to experimental psychophysics. He believed: ideas with different strengths could be assigned different mathematical weights. Weber"s: according to weber"s law, if a person notice a difference between 30 and. 33 grams, that person will also notice a difference between: Method of limits: present sequences of tones that steadily decrease in loudness. Method of adjustment: the greatest degree of control over stimulus presentation. Boring referred fechner, inadvertent founder of psychophysics why?: fechner was more interested in destroying materialism than in establishing a science. Wundt considered the founder of experimental psychology not fechner?: establish an experimental psychology was wundts" explicit goal. The founder of experimental psychology: explicitly set out to identify and establish a new science. 1858 to 1864: wundt was the assistant in a major laboratory, the director was: helmholtz. Laboratory psychology study of: immediate conscious experience.
