3.1 What was David Kinnebrook’s role in the development of the new psychology?
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3.2 What
was the significance of Bessel’s work for the new psychology? How did
it relate to the work of Locke, Berkeley, and other empirical
philosophers?
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3.3 How did developments in early physiology support the mechanistic image of human nature?
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3.4 Discuss the methods that scientists developed to map brain functions.
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3.5 Describe Gall’s cranioscopy method and the popular movement that derived from it. How were they discredited?
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3.6 What was the ultimate goal of the Berlin Physical Society?
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3.7 Explain how developments in physiology combined with British empiricism to produce the new psychology.
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3.8 For what reasons did experimental psychology emerge in Germany and not elsewhere?
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3.9 What is the significance of Helmholtz’s research on the speed of the neural impulse?
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3.10 Describe
Weber’s research on two-point thresholds and on just noticeable
differences. What was the importance of these ideas for psychology?
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3.11 What was Fechner’s insight on October 22, 1850? How did Fechner measure sensations?
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3.12 What
is the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the
intensity of the sensation, as represented by the equation S = K log R?
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3.13 What psychophysical methods did Fechner use? How did psychophysics influence the development of psychology?
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3.14 Do you think experimental psychology would have developed when it did without Fechner’s work? Without Weber’s work? Why?
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3.15 What is the difference between inner psychophysics and outer psychophysics? Which was Fechner forced to focus on? Why?
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