Exam 8: Early Developments in Physiology and the Rise of Experimental Psychology

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To account for color vision,Helmholtz postulated the existence of:

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According to Hering's theory of color vision,if a person stares at a yellow object for a considerable time and then looks at a white sheet of paper,he or she would experience a ____ afterimage.

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According to the ____,energy is never created or lost in a system,but is only transformed from one form to another.

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What stimulated the creation of the new science of physiology?

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Those before Helmholtz who believed in animal spirits,or a vital force,believed that:

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Fechner called sensations that occurred below the absolute threshold:

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Compare and contrast Helmholtz's theory of color vision and Hering's theory of color vision.

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The belief that educational experiences could be arranged so that they strengthen certain faculties of the mind was called:

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What is Broca best known for?

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The first quantitative law in psychology was:

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Helmholtz found that when individuals with normal sight wore distorted lenses they:

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Concerning the rate of nerve conduction,Helmholtz found that:

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Flourens concluded that the cortical hemispheres do not have localized functions.

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Bessel used personal equations to:

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According to Helmholtz,sensations were combined with the memories of previous experiences to cause perception through the process of:

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For Müller,adequate stimulation is defined as:

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Weber called the smallest distance between two points at which a subject reported sensing two points instead of one the:

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Concerning Kant's proposed categories of thought,Helmholtz demonstrated that:

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It was ____ that provided the link between mental philosophy and the science of psychology.

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____ is the study of the relationship between physical and psychological events.

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