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| Is supposed to answer the question: how do empirical events come to be represented in consciousness? Is perception accurate? |
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| Principle of Conservation of Energy (Helmholtz) |
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| energy is never created or lost, he proved that this even applies to living organisms. e.g. the amount of energy expended was directly proportionate to the amount of food and oxygen consumed |
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| Life cannot be reduced to physical processes and therefore cannot be scientifically investigated |
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| Everything exists is no more than its physical properties |
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| Theory of perception (Helmholtz) |
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| Sensations become perceptions via unconscious inference |
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| Inferring that the railroad tracks get smaller because its further into the distance |
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| Raw elements of conscious experience, simply receiving the info |
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| Interpreting the information that you receive |
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| Nerve conduction (Helmholtz) |
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| measured the rate of nerve conduction using reaction time experiments with both frogs and people. |
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| Two point threshold (weber) |
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| Smallest amount of spacial separation in which two points can be distinguished as separate |
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| The JND is a constant fraction of the standard weight, very important because it shows perception is law-like and can be studied scientifically |
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| Signal detection analysis |
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| Tests that beep to see what you can hear as they get quieter and quieter |
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| Belief that objects have mental and material aspects, inannimate objects are capable of psychological experiences and thought |
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| For mental sensations to change the physical stimulation would have to as well, studies relationship between physical events and psychological perception |
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| Elements of the mind (Wundt) |
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| Possess intensity and quality (modality) |
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| Tri-dementional theory of feeling |
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| feelings are described according to three attributes: pleasantness-unplesantness, excitement-calm, and strain-relaxation |
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| active and voluntary, zeroing in on part of the perceptual feel e.g. just listening to the drums in a song |
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| Creative Synthesis (Wundt) |
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| Once elements are apperceived they can be arranged and rearranged according to the individual's will |
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