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Physiological Influences in Psychology

Physiological Influences in Psychology. Mapping Brain Functions from the Inside. Hall Flourens Mike, the headless chicken. Extirpation. a technique for determining the function of a given part of the animal’s brain by removing it or destroying it and observing the resulting behavior changes.

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Physiological Influences in Psychology

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  1. Physiological Influences in Psychology

  2. Mapping Brain Functions from the Inside • Hall • Flourens • Mike, the headless chicken

  3. Extirpation a technique for determining the function of a given part of the animal’s brain by removing it or destroying it and observing the resulting behavior changes

  4. Clinical method posthumous examination of brain structures to detect damaged areas assumed to be responsible for behavioral conditions that existed before that person died

  5. Paul Broca • Broca’s area • Used clinical method • Phineas Gage

  6. Research on Brain Functions, mapping from the Outside • Franz Josef Gall (1758-1828) • Phrenology • Spurzheim

  7. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) • Electric stimulation in the leg of a frog • Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934)

  8. The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology • Germany • Helmholtz • Weber • Fechner • Wundt (next chapter)

  9. Herman Helmholtz (1821-1894) • Jack of all trades • Invented opthalmoscope • Young-Helmholtz

  10. Ernst Weber (1795-1878) • Just noticeable Differences: The smallest difference that ca be detected between two physical stimuli. • Two-Point Thresholds: the threshold at which two points can be distinguished as such

  11. Gustav Fechner • Dr. Mises • The effects of the intensities are not absolute but relative to the sensation that already exists.

  12. Thresholds • Absolute threshold: the point of sensitivity below which no sensations can be detected and above which no sensations can be experienced. • Differential Threshold: The point of sensitivity at which the least amount of change in a stimulus gives rise to a change in sensation.

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