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| Who believed that health and illness depended on the body's magnetic fluid? |
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| Who's work was the precursor to hypnosis? |
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| Who came up with cranioscopy/phrenology? |
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| Who discovered that the two halves of the brain are connected? |
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| Who discovered that the spinal cord fibers cross when connecting to the lower brain? |
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| Who discovered that the amount of gray matter in the cortex affects intelligence? |
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| Who's theory lead to the first true studies of localization of brain function? |
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| Who moved psychology away from metaphysics into empirical science? |
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| Who discovered that nerve impulses send information to the brain to cause sensation? |
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| Doctrine of specific nerve energies |
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Muller
-each sensory nerve releases an energy that is specific to itself |
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| Who was interested in touch? |
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| Who found that the sense of touch is actual several senses? |
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| Just noticeable difference |
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Weber
-absolute threshold for weight, lines, temp, brightness, etc. |
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| Who discovered that the senses have varying levels of sensitivity? |
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| Who showed that underlying mental functions can be experimentally investigated? |
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| Who believed that there was no vital life force/soul? |
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| Who came up with the Trichromatic theory of color vision? |
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| Who described the difference between sensation and perception? |
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Fechner
-the study of the relationship between the physical and psychological realms (mind-body relationship) |
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| Three methods of psychophysics |
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| Method of: limits, constant stimuli, adjustment |
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| Who modified Weber's law and what was the formula? |
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