Founders of modern psychology.

Hall, G. Stanley

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“…It is not difficult finding examples of problems with the groundings in psychology-the most notorious of which would involve the historical mind-body or, as I would phrase it, the Logos-Bios problem. I have always considered Fechner (Hall, 1912) to be the real father of psychology, because he theorized-albeit with little acceptance from colleagues-that these two spheres of human experience were of equal stature. Helmholtz's influence was to win out in psychology, thanks to Wundt's apparently half-hearted commitment to elementism (see Blumenthal, 1975), which seeks to reduce the Logos (content) to the Bios (process).…”

Section: Sample Problems In Psychology's Groundingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A suggested principle of complementarity for psychology: In theory, not method.

Rychlak¹

1993

American Psychologist

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Section: Sample Problems In Psychology's Groundingsmentioning

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A suggested principle of complementarity for psychology: In theory, not method.

Rychlak¹

1993

American Psychologist

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“…When the afterimage starts to fade it can be restored by blinking rapidly. The portrait was derived from an illustration in Hall (1912). eye, or the rest of the body, leads to the disappearance of complementary afterimages" (Fechner, 1840, pp. 215, 217-218 and 221).…”

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confidence: 99%

Fechner's Elusive Parallel Law

Ross

Wade

2010

Seeing and Perceiving

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Weber's Law states that the differential threshold or just-noticeable-difference (jnd) is proportional to the physical intensity of the stimulus. Fechner built up his logarithmic law of sensation intensity from Weber's Law and the assumption that all jnds are subjectively equal. He thought it important that the Parallel Law should also hold. The Parallel Law states that, when perceived stimulus intensity is changed by something other than physical intensity (such as adaptation), Weber's Law continues to hold: discrimination should be unchanged provided the perceived values of the two stimuli change in the same ratio. Fechner claimed that weight discrimination was unaffected by weight adaptation; he was unsure about light adaptation; and he claimed that tactile length discrimination was unaffected by perceived changes caused by the bodily location of the stimulus. Modern research on adaptation for weights and other sensory stimuli shows that changes occur both in perceived intensity and in discrimination. Discrimination between stimuli is usually finest when the adaptation level is appropriate to the test level. There is insufficient evidence concerning the discrimination of tactile length and visual length when perceived length is changed. However, the Parallel Law may be untestable because of the difficulty of obtaining measures in the same experiment both for changes in discrimination and for the ratios of the perceived changes of the stimuli.

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“…Mead's interest in the problem of consciousness was, of course, firmly rooted in the problems faced by comtemporary philosophy itself: the challenge to it by the growing laboratory research in psychology and the theories of behavior that such research was generating (Rucker, 1969;Reck, 1968;Hall, 1924;Miller, 1973;Metraux, ms). For Mead, the challange of the new experimental psychology was to finda way of explaining how the human species could both be shaped by the world, the world in which it was at home, and shape that world.…”

Section: Mead's Concept Of Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%